New Zealand Itinerary Breakdown

After years of dreaming about a trip to New Zealand, it was finally coming to fruition.  The hours of researching, building itineraries, booking accommodations and activities was about to become a reality.  To this date, this was by far the biggest and longest vacation we had ever taken and took a lot of planning to [...]

Norway Itinerary Breakdown

In September of 2025 we traveled to Norway. Below is a quick snapshot of our itinerary. Note: details on many of these activities are available in separate posts. If you're interested in learning more, leave a comment and we would love to answer any questions! Click the day for a description of where we went [...]

Homes Away from Home in Norway

After the issue we ran into with our VRBO rental in the UK we were a little worried with the 3 other Airbnb rentals we had coming up in Norway. Because we’d be traveling throughout Norway and staying in some small towns, rentals were more available than hotels at the time of booking this trip. [...]

Taking on Trollstigen and Trollkyrkja

This was the day we continued heading north and had one of Norway’s most visited places. the famous Trollstigen in our sights. We drove the road, also called the Troll’s Ladder, from Stryn up to a small town called Vikebukt where we’d be staying for a few nights. The most well known section of the [...]

Exploring Geiranger

After leaving Sogndal we found ourselves heading north to our next location in Stryn. On the way up we decided to detour to Kjenndalsbreen, an offshoot of the Jotunheimen Glacier to check out the waterfall and glacier. The drive here was beautiful and when arrived we were surprised that we were the only ones here [...]

A Western Fjord Adventure

We spent several days in Sogndal staying at the Sogndal Fjordpanorama Airbnb with amazing views of the fjord. This was our base for a few days as we explored the area of Flåm and taking in what it had to offer. While in Flåm we took a boat cruise on the Nærøyfjord and were amazed [...]