Last summer, my friend Keegan flew in to Milwaukee and we embarked on week-long, 2500+ mile road trip through the Great Lakes. This post is the first of three, and it documents a sampling of our shenanigans in Milwaukee and Northern Wisconsin. Milwaukee – Lake Michigan 43.0400765,–87.8992467 Cave Point County Park – Lake Michigan 44.9307442,–87.1762614 […]
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Note: This is part five of a series on my experience hiking the Laugavegur Trail in the summer of 2017. You can see the other posts in the series here. Enjoy! Sometime after midnight we were woken by a “knock” on our tent. A baby-faced figure in a red coat explained in broken English that he […]
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Note: This is part four of a series on my experience hiking the Laugavegur Trail in the summer of 2017. You can see the other posts in the series here. Enjoy! The third day of hiking started just before the crack of dawn…which at this time of year in Iceland means about 3AM. The light […]
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Note: This is part three of a series on my experience hiking the Laugavegur Trail in the summer of 2017. You can see the other posts in the series here. Enjoy! Our second day of hiking started early. We were warm in our hut, but we were also in a pretty crowded space and we had […]
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Note: This is part two of a series on my experience hiking the Laugavegur Trail in the summer of 2017. You can see the other posts in the series here. Enjoy! On the morning of the first day of the hike, Lindsay and I headed to the Reykjavik bus station and grabbed a hot drink […]
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Note: This is part one of a series on my experience hiking the Laugavegur Trail in the summer of 2017. You can see the other posts in the series here. Enjoy! Before embarking on our 4-day, 55-kilometer journey, we figured it’d be best to spend a few days recovering from jet lag and getting fully […]
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In July and August of 2017, my good friend Lindsay and I traveled to Iceland for a week for the sole purpose of hiking the famed Laugavegur Trail. We had been in Iceland a few years earlier as a part of a trip to see the 2015 total solar eclipse and had fallen in love […]
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