It seems that I may have gone into this trip a little in over my head. I’m new to it all — “it all” being the ability to consistently dish out quality content and traveling internationally. So it shouldn’t be a huge surprise that I failed at balancing both at once my first time around. Whoops!

Every day of the last sixteen was filled with a flurry of activity and mind-opening adventures, nothing of which I’d ever experienced before. By the time I retreated each night, I was too mentally and physically exhausted to open up my laptop and put into words everything I had just seen and felt.

And even as I sit here in Oslo’s airport, a mere 11 hours away from landing on my home turf, there is still a light cloak of delirium covering my mind. I’m hoping that my return to the states will give me a bit more clarity and determination to work everything out into a blog post or two, with plenty of pictures to spare.

Until I have a minute to get it all done, here are a few photos to hold you over!

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The city of Reykjavik seen from the top of Hallgrimskirkja Church

Taken on a cliff overlooking Hvalfjord (Whale Fjord) on the way to Langjokull Glacier

A waterfall in Iceland’s National Park, Thingvellir

The Cliffs of Moher in Ireland

Duna Beach Club on the Algarve Coast in Lagos, Portugal