Category: Travel

Bird of Paradise

I saw this bird of paradise plant in the Azores, a place which seems like paradise to me. It’s too cool where I live for...

Icelandic Traffic Jam

I had heard Icelanders complain about traffic, and just rolled my eyes. More than once I’ve taken longer than an hour to get to McCaw...

Waterfall

This Icelandic waterfall is gorgeous, but the most amazing thing about this picture is that I managed to get all the tourists out of the...

Northern Wildflowers

The first time I visited Iceland in July, the entire landscape was covered with these cottony little blooms. Once I got home, I spent hours...

Transparent City

Despite my personal history of book club and book challenge failures, I am slowly plugging away at the Reading Around the World challenge. I started...