Sorry! I couldn't resist. I think Steven's influence is taking over (an excellent joke!) As you may have figured from that groanable title, we spent the weekend in Tallinn, Estonia. Tallinn isn't a place we spent a lot of time thinking about, but it's a two-hour ferry ride directly south across the Gulf of Finland. …
We decided to come to Helsinki on a whim. We'd never really spent much time in Scandinavia, so, why not? That about sums up our decision-making. Surprise! We really like it (in the summer when it's light most of the time). First off, it's entirely walkable and has an excellent public transportation system. We have …
Tuesday morning we left Iceland and headed for Svalbard with an overnight stay at the Oslo airport. The flight from Reykjavik to Oslo was thoroughly uneventful and we stayed at an airport hotel, which was also perfectly uninteresting but very convenient. Wednesday morning we boarded our SAS flight to Longyearbyen with a stop in Tromsø, …
The Iceland Adventure Continues Sunday morning, we woke up on time, but I was a minute late because we had to have coffee and bagels and things just take a bit longer than you think they will. Maybe I was stalling a tad because I was a wee bit nervous about swimming between the continents …
I know it has been a while since we posted, we left Panama at the end of May and visited family and friends for most of June. Last Thursday, June 26th, we took our leave from Chicago and boarded a flight to Iceland. We are taking 10 days of vacation to see Iceland and Svalbard, …
What? you ask. The Pacific is west in the Western Hemisphere, everyone knows that! Well, not if you're in Panama, which runs east-west and happens to contain the narrowest point (51 miles) between the Atlantic (well,technically the Caribbean) and the Pacific making it attractive for digging a canal. It didn't hurt that the U.S. already …
Plus a little stroll Last weekend, we decided to go for a short hike up Ancon Hill, the highest point in Panama City, although it's only 653 feet tall. We set the Uber directions to take us to a parking lot at the base of the path, but our driver missed the turn and we …
Yes, we made it to Panama City last week. We're staying in one of the many high rises here: Pool on the roof, gym, view of the water. Hard to go wrong with that. We had a bit of a time adjusting, mostly because we are used to cities where walking is the norm, but …
Today marks seven years since we started our blog and to “celebrate” that anniversary we pulled out our old school method of planning a trip Morocco - we were so young in 2017! Our first trip together was prior to this blog, we took a three week trip to Morocco. Sue found some super cheap …
We have been working with Marcela to learn Spanish (for me -- it is more of trying to learn Spanish -- think of Sisyphus rolling the rock up the hill) for about three years, but we had never met her, her husband, and their dogs until last week. You may remember from your faithful reading …
Doing It On The Road 