Prague.
Our train arrived in Prague around 7:30 on Saturday. After purchasing tickets for public transportation, we walked around the train station like lost tourists (which we were), until we finally were able to get our bearings and find the correct tram stop.
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Eastern
Austria.
Sloane and I were up early to finish packing our suitcases - we had a train to catch in Budapest at 830AM. We called a cab, and were at the train station with over an hour to spare. After collecting our tickets we walked across the street for some good old American starbucks - Sloane really wanted yogurt, and we knew it could be found there.
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Buda And Pest, Two Sides Of The Danube.
Sloane and I just got back from another fantastic trip overseas to Europe. Sloane had mentioned Prague when we were planning our trip last year, so we decided to try it out this time. My family has roots in Hungary, (see our delicious family tradition here), so I was excited that Budapest was so close to Prague and easily accessible. We researched a bunch of different options: flying in and out of both Prague and Budapest, renting cars, riding trains and flights from city to city. Our plans began to take shape when we finally purchased plane tickets in late July. We found it was cheaper to fly into Budapest and out of Prague, so that gave us a starting and end point. We planned the rest afterwards as we talked to folks who had already travelled to these areas.
Sloane and I just got back from another fantastic trip overseas to Europe. Sloane had mentioned Prague when we were planning our trip last year, so we decided to try it out this time.
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The fellas hiking up the Bald Rocks area on the aptly named Lichen Trail. It was incredibly hot, and if you look close, you can see the vulture in the middle of the frame on a dead tree, he was keeping an eye out for dehydrated hikers.
I recently took a trip north for a long hike through the woods of Harriman State Park in NY with my adventure buddies Loren and Frank. There were no open campsites at the limited car campgrounds - which is what we usually do on the eve before a great adventure, so everyone can meet up throughout the night at various times easily.
Read MoreSloane and our awesome little Suzuki Jimny. This car was pretty capable, but honestly - of all the places we went - this was the only one we even came close to needing high clearance or 4 wheel drive - but we did use them both immediately on this side trip.
Our flight from Bergen was relatively easy, we had a quick layover in Oslo and landed at the Keflavik airport around noon. We were ushered through the duty free store, and decided to be smart about booze this time, and just buy it now - so we stocked up on wine and beer at the airport.
Read MoreLunch in Bryggen, the sun was in and out all day.
Sloane and I had one final hike to accomplish in Voss, from our AirBnB to the train station, with all of our crap. This is where rolling luggage would have been a good choice. We made it, with a few minutes to spare, purchased our tickets, and sat down to enjoy the last leg of the scenic train ride to Bergen, on Norway's west coast. We arrived in Bergen, a gorgeous city on the water and surrounded by mountains, around 10:30 AM that day. We hailed a cab after a failure to find the correct bus, and made our way to our apartment for the next 2 nights. We dropped off our luggage, and set off to find something to eat for lunch in our little neighborhood of Bryggen.
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Camp night one.
We decided to head to wild and wonderful, West by god Virginia, to a spot known as the Dolly Sods WIlderness Area. This place looks very similar to an arctic tundra, like parts of Alaska or Canada, and it is amazing to have such a unique landscape so close to home. I had been here before, and hiked a very short section of the trail we were hiking this time, but had never done any overnight trips.
Read MoreA foggy Oslo view from the top deck of the cruise ship.
I was up around 7 am, after a fantastic night of sleep while cruising to Norway - much better than the sleep I was able to get on the plane to Denmark. I headed out to the deck, expecting to see the fjords and Norway in all their splendor, instead I saw fog. It was thick, and it was everywhere. Disappointed, I grabbed a coffee from the cafe for Sloane and headed back to the cabin to take a quick shower while Sloane slowly woke up. After packing our things we headed down to the restaurant where we had a free breakfast waiting for us, to our surprise it was way better the expensive dinner we had the night before. We even had a seat with a view of the fog. The ship arrived in Oslo's port around 930am, where we had expected to see the whole city from the water - which we had heard was fantastic - but again it was more fog.
Read MoreSloane and bikes outside of our apartment in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen.
loane and I took a serious trip over seas in the middle of September, and it was amazing. I have never really traveled abroad, aside from a quick work trip to Israel when I was fresh out of college. Sloane used to do European trips with her family quite often, but hasn't done so since she graduated college. So, for her 30th birthday this past summer, we took some tax return money and decided we would go somewhere awesome together. Sloane was in charge of choosing where we went, and she ended up on Scandinavia, after seeing some other blogs that she followed who had some pretty great shots and descriptions of their travels to the area. We began our journey in Copenhagen Denmark. We arrived around 12PM on September 12th after taking a red eye from DC, through Iceland. The plan was to sleep on the plane, but I didn't do much of that. So we would need to fight through the afternoon to stay awake and get on a normal schedule according to the six hour time difference. We got to our AirBnB - which are the only places we stayed during the entire trip - later that afternoon after a long lunch and an even longer walk with all our luggage.
Read MoreSloane on the giant chairs at the Chincoteague water front park.
These images are from an amazing vacation we took in late June, to the Eastern Shore of Virginia, about as far down as you can go. I am not going to give much narrative, but please enjoy the images and the small amount of words that go along with them. We started our trip off with a fast visit to Chincoteage and Assateague, since we were driving right by on the way to our final destination.
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