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 …

2018 App Faves

Munich

Apps: Traveling with our electronic devices has become a strange mix of delightful, weird, and culturally unifying. We love how much easier travel has become with the aid of a few well-designed apps…

Nicole’s Travel Origin Story

Nicole on the Great Wall of China

Origins: The wanderlust instilled in me by my parents is stronger than ever and my wide-eyed yearning for knowledge and experience and connection has never changed…