With light hearts and lighter wallets, we left the lands of midnight suns and jetted out for Budapest. We had a strict three-point plan...

If Iceland was an appetizer of near-endless daylight, Norway was a full-on feast of never-setting sun. To get to Tromsø we had to fly through Oslo, which meant an epically long schlep...

Tired of the letter R, we swapped in a C and made the hop from Ireland to Iceland. What a difference a letter can make! The bus ride from the airport to Reykjavík...

Copenhagen was great. Could Dublin be even better? It is the home of Guinness after all. The three of us set out on an adventure to see what Dublin had to offer...

After spending an entire month in Prague, it was time to stretch our exploration legs once more. We kicked things off in Denmark, where Mirek and I were lucky enough to be graced with the presence of the one and only Athena Torres...

The first "official" stop on our year off was, to me at least, a surprise. The trip was my birthday gift from Mirek, and he is *very* good at keeping secrets. On the way to the airport...

I write these words a year delayed And yet I still feel dirty It feels like only yesterday That Bridge and Soph turned thirty...

New York lived up to expectations: it was a cold, wet, and miserable place... packed to the brim with cool stuff to do, awesome friends to do it with, and bountiful Smirnoffs to ice them with. Which is to say...

I left Portland a few days early so I could stop by Colorado to spend the weekend hanging with Sparkles. We drank a bunch of local microbrews, shred some gnarly Colorado pow...

February 15th was our official last day of work. It's to think how long the yay area'd been home for us at this point: almost 6 years for Soph, and nearly 12 years for me. Saying bye...