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From the road…

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  • We did it, all of it.

    And yes, at 34 weeks pregnant. Here is the thing about meeting your person at age 40: you do everything all at once. I left Norway last November when I was eight weeks pregnant. We found out the wonderful news just days after Serhii’s visa to the US was approved.…

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  • Reine, Norway

    Oh, how I loved Reine. My introduction was actually two days prior. It was just past Reine, in the town of Moskenes, that I was…

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  • Two days after hiking Veggen, I found myself gearing up for another hike, one I had noted from the minimal research I had done while…

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  • After leaving the Matmora area, I traveled west, deeper into the most populated areas of the Lofoten Islands, the areas known to be flooded with…

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  • The Weather Effect

    After a very stormy second night at Camping Raften, I woke with my body feeling the effects of the hike up Matmora. With the rain…

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I’m Kate, the author behind this blog. I love to travel and tell stories. Lately, I have been traveling a lot which means I have been telling a lot of stories.