Going to Iceland was almost a last minute decision, if you can say that about anything that was planned months ago. While putting together the last parts of our RTW trip we happened to see a TV commercial advertising Iceland Air and their possibility to do a stopover in Iceland for no extra cost while traveling between USA and Europe. We had our travel agent at Kilroy arrange our return from New York through Iceland solely because of that ad, which proves that th...

I started writing this blog text a while ago but didn't get it quite ready until now. I'm currently sitting at Helsinki airport waiting for our first flight to take off. We are both so excited! Here are some of my thoughts about this whole gap year thing. J To me this gap year is about doing something I have never done before. It is in a way about being free to do pretty much what I and we want to. I have always been happy with my life and with the way I have ...

We recently received an e-mail telling us, that the web page for our blog is changing. Nothing else will change, but after the shift has happened (sometime in January), you will find us at: www.offexploring.com/finnish-terra-to-the-ends-of-the-world Saimme hiljattain tiedon, että blogimme nettiosoite muuttuu. Muutos tapahtuu jossakin vaiheessa tammikuun aikana, tämän jälkeen meidät löytää osoitteesta: www.offexploring.com/finnish-terra-to-the-ends-of-the...

Planning everything and anything even remotely related to traveling has of course made me consider the possibility of theft on the road. Someone might in some part of the trip try to pickpocket or even mug us when we're out there in the scary world (not saying it couldn't happen at home, it would just feel stupid to prepare to these things here…). The word on the street is that a tourist is always an easy target for would be robbers and what not, since we usual...

As we stated in the first blog entry we made, we love to plan things. Or maybe it's just me… Anyway, planning things includes making lists. Very long and comprehensive lists… Like this one here! Truthfully speaking this list is just ridiculously long, but a lot of it is because I've listed all the things like toothpaste and the different medicines (of which there are a lot) as separate items instead of combining them under "oral hygiene" or "meds". That bei...