Wow, lodging in Norway is expensive. A basic hostel room is going to cost me $80/night. The Dollar has lost 20% of its value to the Kroner since my 2008 guidebook was published.
Are you Norwegian? Can you offer me a place to stay in Vestlandet, Sørlandet or Oslofjorden?
In exchange I will take your portrait and make you a personal webpage.
I feel crazy! I am paralyzed! I have a bible-length list of things to do this morning but I can’t stop hanging out on the Internet.
How can I possibly have time to consider your ideas when I have so many of my own to think about?
I strive for balance.
Eugenio Recuenco, Beauty and the Beast.
How Devil’s Tower formed. via Noah.
I’m cleaning out old files and found this picture that Nick Gray (former college roommate) sent me back in 2003 with an email complaining that I had forgotten to take my pizza crust with me when I left the shower. No big deal.
I’m visiting a few European destination starting this weekend and I’m looking for things to do and places to stay. I created a Google doc to centralize my notes — check it out and reblog this post if you have something to add — too bad, Google doesn’t allow public editing of a doc.
Background: Last year I won a free roundtrip flight on Silverjet (world’s first carbon neutral airline) and I’m using it this weekend to London. I’m visiting a couple of my college professors who are teaching near Primrose Hill this semester. Then, I’ll fly to Bergen, Norway and rent a car. I don’t have any specific plans — just want to see teeny coastal towns and big ‘ole fjords for a week. I’ll return my car in Oslo and hop over to Düsseldorf to meet up with my second family, the Töpels, who live in nearby Viersen. There for just a night, then driving up to Enschede, Netherlands to see my friend Nico Muhly perform with Teitur at the Baroque Music Festival. Finally, driving to the general area of Luxembourg and Saarland, Germany to visit a few towns I’ve determined a majority of my mom’s ancestors to have originated before immigrating in the late 1700’s.
Miraculously, the total travel cost of this trip is less than $500. Raffle-winnings, low-cost Euro airlines and borrowed mini-vans sure make it easy to be a rolling stone.
Staircase envy.
