Exploring One of Iceland’s Most Iconic Routes: The Golden Circle If you are planning a trip to Iceland, you have to check out The Golden Circle. It is a great way to spend a day outside of Reykjavík, easy to navigate and a beautiful view of Iceland’s countryside. Check out our experience driving around the Golden…
Experience Iceland in 4 Days
If you only have limited time in Iceland and looking for fun, active things to do around the entire island, here is a 4 day guide that won’t disappoint! The best way to see everything is to camp. There are campsites around the entire island or you can just simply pull into a rest stop…
Why You Should Hike Hjörleifshöfði
How to Hike Hjörleifshöfði, The Haunted Mountain of Iceland. On our trip in Southern Iceland, we decided to hike Hjörleifshöfði. It is a large mountain past Vík that stands alone among the black sand beeches and mountain range. The mountain is named after Hjörleifur Hróðmarsson, the brother of Ingólfur Arnarson, the first settler of Iceland. Hjörleifur only lived…
How to Swim at Seljavallalaug
Southern Iceland’s Hidden Gem: Seljavallalaug Along the southern coast of Iceland, is a hidden geothermal swimming pool that I thought was only an image I would see on Pinterest, Seljavallalaug. After a long day exploring the coast, David and I decided we would hike to the pool around midnight so we wouldn’t be swarmed with…
Hiking Glymur Waterfall
Glymur – 198m high, second highest waterfall in Iceland. Hiking to the top of Glymur is by far my favorite hike and views in all of Iceland, well, so far at least. I have already made the hike about four times and it seems to be more breathtaking each time I see it. The hike to…
How to Visit the Sólheimasandur Plane Crash
Mayday: The Abandoned DC Plane Crash On our road trip across the southern coast of Iceland, we had several attractions on our to-do list. One of them was the abandoned plane crash of Sólheimasandur. In 1973 a United States Navy DC plane ran out of fuel and crashed on the black beach located right off of…
10 Places to Visit This Summer
With summer quickly approaching, now is the time to start planning those holiday getaways. Growing up in Michigan, Memorial Day Weekend was a big deal. We would pack up the car and head to our cabin Up North for a weekend full of fun activities. We loved spending our days out on the lake or sitting…
Why it is Okay to Graduate College Without a Job
Note to Self: It is Okay to Graduate Without a Job Picture this: A Senior in college is about to graduate and is freaking out because she doesn’t have a job, nor does she have her life figured out yet. So she has a little mental breakdown and decides her life is over. That was…
Travel Tips: How to Beat Jet Lag
Let’s be honest, jet lag is the WOAT (worst of all time). You can’t sleep, wake up and you are always hungry at random times in the day. I have been in Iceland for almost 4 days now and I feel sluggish and it may be that the sun only sets from 10:45 pm to…
How to Wander, Not Wonder
Traveling has become a large part of the societal norm. It is the right of passage to possess a form of wanderlust as a young millennial. What happens though when someone gets caught up in the thought of wondering and forgets to actually wander. Wondering is a state of doubt and questioning. It allows someone…