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Adventure to Fjellvang Hytta, Oslo Nordmarka
We had an awesome weekend cross country skiing to a hut in the woods. We booked one night stay at the Norwegian Trekking Association’s (DNT) hut. They are usually maintained fairly well and are open all seasons for outdoor activities. They have over 400 hundred huts all over Norway.
Saturday
The morning [...]

Winter Sports in Oslo Instead.
This weekend I was supposed to go to London to visit my friend Fiona. I arrived at the airport Thursday night to find out my flight was cancelled because of bad weather. There were winds of up to 90mph that swept across the UK, Germany, and the rest of Europe. I [...]

I came across a neat site for finding airfares called Kayak.com. I used to use Expedia.com for a quick search, but they don’t include a lot of small low fare European airlines. I then would have to check each of those individually. Kayak seems to have a broader reach with those airlines and it [...]

So Genna and I made a stopover in Boston on the way to and from Oslo for the holidays. It helps to break up the flights into a 9 hour and a 6 hour flight, in place of one 15 hour. Plus the best part was I got to see my family. We got in [...]

WineTasting in Central Coast California
We had a fantastic mini weekend vacation within Santa Barbara County wine country. Dave and I have missed many of a weekend opportunities to go to Arroyo Grande for wine tasting while David was finishing his degree. Finally we made it New Years Eve weekend 2006! (click on the photo for [...]

We landed in San Diego from Boston and went straight out to Old Town’s Guadalajera for Mexican food with friends. Anyone could find me because I had on a cheesy Viking helmet on my head. “Arrrrgh.”(It really got passed around a lot as you can notice in the photo slideshow) Man, carne asada [...]