It's early in the trip but DH has already developed a unique way to express her enthusiasm with respect to each of the many sights and eccentricities offered up in the U.S.. If she decides to wait in the car while I grab the photo as part of this extended scavenger hunt we’re on, she’s definitely not tingling with excitement (particularly if she insists on leaving the car running). I discovered this new rating system when I parked the vehicle faci...

DH was a little upset that I hesitated when our lack of space forced a decision around taking her or my golf clubs on this road trip. I really wasn't hesitating- I just wasn’t paying attention- but since neither of those answers score me any points, we decided that the official start to the road trip had to be the very first location of her beloved Tim Hortons coffee shop. DH had developed something of a worrisome addiction to Double Doubles by the end ...

The length of our stay in Toronto was heavily reliant on the efficiency of the Ontario Health Care system which is why we went from a plan of 3 months to a reality of 6 months. In that time my slightly broken DH had multiple root canal and crazy-glue procedures on her teeth, rehabilitated a sciatica, had a steroid injection in her hip to provide pain relief for a torn groin meniscus, and underwent knee surgery for a different torn meniscus. All of this included m...

We wrapped up Iceland and Part 2 of our somewhat aimless wandering.How do we define Part 1, Part 2, etc of our worldwide wanderings? The site we use for the blog (TravelPod) has a nice feature which allows you to create softcover books/journals which include all of the blog posts, photos, and maps. As some (all?) of our readers have pointed out, it can be somewhat time consuming to work through each blog and all of the attached photos. And apparently TravelPod ag...

So Iceland has a population of 320,00 with 200,000 living in the greater Reykjavik area (120,000 in Reykjavik proper) which gives it the lowest population density of any country in Europe (and explains many of the very lonely homes we saw in the countryside). And the low population explains why Icelandic phone books list people by their first names. There are no surnames or family names in Iceland. Reykjavik itself is the northernmost capital city of any countr...