Travel
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Note 31 – March 2024 Books
March Madness! How’s everyone’s brackets going into Final Four weekend? I’m sure everyone had the men’s and women’s teams for both UConn and NC State in their Final Four brackets, right!? LOL! Should be fun all around this weekend. I did end up reading more than I expected between all the games, and here’s the final…
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Note 28 – 2024 Spring Trip Planning
I suspect that you’ve all been wondering where we planning to travel next. Well, it isn’t where we thought we’d be going when we returned from Iceland last September! I was going to wait a few weeks after my review of that trip and announce our next trip, but 3 weeks later it became apparent…
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Note 23 – Golden Circle – Reykjavik Day 3
Expected weather: Hi 52F, Rainy Population: 138,875 (city) / 248,000 (Region) / 352,721 Disclosure: Writing this from my notes, pictures, and memory a couple of days after returning home. Another 8am start with Your Day Tours again, this time for the famous “Golden Circle” tour. Per YDT’s website description: we stop at all the main…
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Note 22 – South Coast Adventure – Reykjavik Day 2
Expected weather: Hi 54F, Mostly Cloudy Population: 138,875 (Reykjavik) / 248,000 (Region) / 352,721 Disclosure: I’m writing this on the plane going home two days after the fact. Today we were to be picked up at our respective hotels around 8am for a small group tour of the South Coast with Your Day Tours. Their…
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Note 21 – Please, Check Your Luggage Tag! – Reykjavik Day 1
Expected weather: Hi 53F, Cloudy Population: 138,875 (city) / 248,000 (Region) / 352,721 (Country) Our journey with Viking is sadly over and we disembarked after one last breakfast. We headed to our hotels (long story how we ended up at separate hotels that I won’t go into here), checked in, left our bags, and met…
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Note 20 – Fire Hill – Westman Islands (Heimaey), Iceland
Expected weather: Hi 49F, Partly Cloudy Seas: Calm\Moderate Population: 4500 / 352,721 We awoke to a beautiful day and another interesting excursion. Now at our final port, we took the Viking included excursion “HEIMAEY ON FOOT”. This was another tender port as a volcanic eruption which occurred from January-June 1973 significantly reduced the width of…
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