Last year, I found myself witnessing the largest pride celebration on this planet, the 46th annual New York City Pride March. An electric, colorful, almost Mardi Gras-esque celebration of love and life, that was attended by a record setting 32,000 marchers. And thousands upon thousands of supporters that lined up all along 5th Avenue, from outside Empire State Building all the way to the historic Stonewall Inn. As I stood there on the side (with strangers …
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2017’s first week has officially come to an end. Seeing as I stuffed myself silly with Indian junk food, met up with some of my oldest friends and ate some more junk food, and then slept it all off, most of this week, it is safe to say that it has been gooood. It occurs to me that I should probably write a new year post. None of my “resolutions” have ever actually worked out in the past, …
A while ago, buried somewhere deep in the backwaters of the Internet, I came across this quote by an anonymous Tumblr user. The words made me nostalgic for something I hadn’t even experienced yet. It was odd (and yet it was not) to already know what it would be like to really feel alive in the way described. To go on a road trip, explore places unknown, sleep out of a car, take polaroid pictures, drive to places …
We woke up to the last of our rainy days at the Reykjavík campsite. We hadn’t really got a good look at it last night as we had driven in, but in the light of the morning we could see that this was easily the most crowded, largest campsite we had camped yet. Seriously this one is HUGE. The community kitchen at the campsite had stoves enough for twenty people (almost like a laboratory!) and they had …
Þingvellir — Reykjavík Stops at: Diving at Silfra, Geysir, Gullfoss, Flúðir, Seljalandsfoss, Skógafoss Total driving time: 4 hours and 41 minutes . Our second last day on the road dawned early and cloudy, in the middle of a gorgeous Þingvellir National Park. Today was the day we were going to do something crazy adventurous that neither of us had done before – snorkeling in near-zero temperatures over the Eurasian and American tectonic plates! I saw a picture of this snorkel on a random blog …