One Way to Travel During Lockdown

We connected with our foodie tour guide from our trip to Turkey last year. These Galavanters are stuck inside with the rest of the socially responsible population, but that doesn’t mean we’re not adventuring! In early May we scheduled a bread-baking session with Aysegul at WithLocals, who took us on a private food tour of Istanbul last year when we visited. She is a pastry chef and a very cool person. We made Simit bread, which is a Middle-Eastern cousin …

Our Last Trip Before the Great Pestilence of 2020

It was epic. We brought crampons and a flying robot. Not to make light of our situation, but you gotta laugh. And reminisce. As you would-be galavanters sharpen your pencils and prepare your world maps to plot out your next destination once you’re free, let me take the liberty of telling you where you need to go. And that place is Iceland. Don’t feel like you have to go in winter, on the literally shortest day of the year. Just …

Iceland 2019: Arriving

Part 1: Touching down for a soak It’s an oddball flight, nonstop from San Francisco on Icelandair. The flight is only nine hours, departs SFO at 2PM and so arrives at KEF at 6:40AM. Iceland is also seven hours later than San Francisco, so it feels like landing at around midnight. In other words, all the timing makes it too awkward to sleep on the flight. Take that into account when doing your patented anti-jet-lag stuff. The airport’s not in …