I'm not sure how we chose to go to Ireland- we thought about Kenya, we thought about the rockies in Canada and then i was sure that we had to go to the Antarctica! Yes! I needed to be between floating in subzero water between huge mountains of Ice. We had enough frequent flyer miles ( thanks to Jeff) for all of those places but we kept going around in circles if we should leave the country especially with all that is happening in the last few weeks? Two days before our flight and before we went to work- we sat in our bomb shelter, with the sirens blaring and just looked at each other - and pondered! As the plane taxied and quietly took off - I looked out of the small oval window and ... read more

We were heading towards our last leg of the trip leaving the Bergen area and on our way to Oslo - with a stop at Fagernes county. We are looking at a 5 hour trip and couldn't decide which road would be more scenic (e16 or the rv 7) and yet, not take a 1000 hours. As we entered the round about and as Jeff circled it twice our indecision was halted as the confusion of all of my voiced thoughts had Jeff turning off and leading us into the Lærdal Tunnel. That means two things - first- we are driving E16 and secondly we will be driving thru a tunnel for 24 kilometers! Yes' it's cool that we are driving into the longest tunnel in the world. Luckily this tunnel has two lanes (what a ... read more

As we inched our way down from Alesund to Bergen we slowly saw the scenery change before our eyes. For the last week we were playing in a disneyland adventure. Between the bright lime green pastures set against the dark greens of the forest that are protecting the farms yet, we couldnt decide for the life of us - do we look at the reflection in the lake and see the painted picture or look around and see the beauty in fragments all the while taking in so many details that made us exhausted at the end of the day. We were on an 8 hour journey towards the south , where the mountains became rounder and the colors a bit more subdued. The rivers were almost empty but we were so happy as mickey mouse ... read more

We are addicted! No other way to explain the need to go back to that mountain pass and experience it on a nice clear sunny day. Our plan was to back track thru route 55, and then go to the Geirangerfjord (which is included on UNESCO's World Heritage List) drive to the Trollstigen (English: Trolls' Path)which is a snake like mountain road with its steep incline of 9% and eleven hairbends down a steep mountainside ( we never learn) and then try to get to the city of Molde in time for a jazz concert and then finish at our out of the way storjford hotel and make it for shabbat by 10 at night.. So the download is this .... we drove for about nine hours. Half of those hours I was in a state ... read more

Blue Ice- yes that is what Jeff wanted to see when we talked about our trip to Norway. I had been planning the pretty standard trip (norway in a nutshell - as they call it) and then out of nowhere came the Blue Ice request. "Glaciers?" you want to see ice? open the freezer". I vaguely remember climbing a glacier just outside of Denver in the early 70's, way before anyone was talking global warming. All I could remember thinking was - OK a big slab of Ice.. next... Glaciers, wow - a game changer.. so I redirected my thinking, canceled all of our bookings and went back to the drawing board. Land in Oslo- thrilled to be alive, buy coffee at starbucks located in the airport, car gets upgraded with seat warmers and sun roof. ... read more