Ólafsvík — Hofsós Kirkjufellsfoss, Stykkishólmur, Hvitserkur, Sauðárkrókur Total driving time: 5 hours and 26 minutes . Last night was a disaster. I woke up with a start in the middle of the night, and scrambled around in the darkness to grab my phone out of habit (by which I mean slapped my hands about because there was ZERO space to actually “scramble around”). It took a second to realize that the van was shaking – actually swaying from …
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→That’s So Annie are the chronicles of a queer, immigrant brown woman who is many things – photographer, marketer, social media junkie, engineer, incurable geek, rescue cat mom, activist – but most importantly, she is a storyteller trying to change the world, one day at a time.
Reykjavík — Ólafsvík Stops at: Borgarnes, Búðir, Arnarstapi, Hellnar & Djúpalónssandur Total driving time: 3 hours and 18 minutes . Our Ring Road road trip started in the Icelandic capital city of Reykjavík. After picking up our camper van from Go Campers, and stocking up on fuel and groceries from Bónus (a popular Icelandic grocery chain) we skipped exploring the capital in favor of getting immediately onto the Ring Road. Also known as Route 1, this is a national road that …
Turning 29 was a low-key affair. Most of my friends and family live across the ocean, and TBH east coast gets much too cold to do anything significant outdoors come December. So for my birthday, we decided to FINALLY go watch a Broadway show, something we had planned for our anniversary earlier in the year (which never worked out because of various pet-emergency reasons). It was also one of the things on my 30 before 30. Everyone recommends that Lion King …
As much as I have been ready for adventure and thrill from the get go, I had never actually tried extreme sports. Everyone always talks about that rush of adrenaline after a bungee jump or a sky dive, and I had no real sense of what that meant. So, when I made my 30 before 30 list I put ‘go bungee jumping / sky diving (any adventure sport really!)’ right at the top. I checked off this list item – …
On my list of cool American things to try out as soon as I had the chance, was going for an outdoor movie screening. The kind where there is a projector set up, and people are out on the grass with chairs and pillows and blankets, and watch old movies. Nothing of this sort ever happened in India, not to my knowledge at least, and it sounded like a perfect date night opportunity to me. I am glad …