During the COVID-19 pandemic, everything initially shut down, including our public lands. This was very painful for those of us who are used to spending lots of time outdoors. Thankfully, many of the national parks are opening back up again…but … Continued
COVID-tripping? Pandemic on the road? Corona-in-the-backseat? I am failing miserably at coming up with a clever term for road tripping in the time of COVID-19, but since lots of us are doing it this summer, I wanted to offer some … Continued
Akershus Fortress was my family’s favorite place to visit in Oslo, hands down. My kids love history, weapons, castles and lots of room to run their legs and their imaginations. I love places that don’t cost us an arm and … Continued
Visiting Hurricane Ridge is easy. Hurricane Ridge is the one mountainous area in Olympic National Park with a parking lot, meaning you can drive up into the Olympic Mountains, rather than laboriously climbing them on a week-long backpacking trip. Hurricane Ridge … Continued
Listen, if you want to visit Norway for some Viking cosplay, or because you really love reindeer sausage and lutefisk, or to go on some crazy 14-hour midnight hike, I’m not here to judge. But I had my own reasons … Continued
Trollstigen is Norwegian for “troll ladder,” which instantly makes this twisty mountain highway more interesting to kids. Trollstigen is Norway’s most visited scenic drive, and it pops up on many top ten lists of things to do in Norway. I … Continued
If you’re visiting Oslo, make sure you take a trip out to the museum district on the Bygdøy Peninsula. Just a short bus or ferry ride from downtown Oslo, you’ll find the Viking Ship Museum, the Norwegian Museum of Cultural … Continued
If you find yourself looking for things to do in Ålesund, Norway, I highly recommend a day at the Sunnmøre Museum. We did this museum trip totally wrong: we stopped at the end of the day, just before closing, with … Continued
The day my husband and I left for Fiji, there was one case of COVID-19 recorded in our county. The day we returned from Fiji (6 days later and 2 days earlier than planned) there were 56 cases in our … Continued
Hands down, my kids’ favorite thing to do in Denmark was…okay, fine, it was LEGO House and its original ancestor LEGOLAND, of course, but next best was Frederiksborg Slot (also known as Frederiksborg Castle), that castle to end all castles, … Continued