That Time We Slept In a Hotel Made of Snow – Our Experience at the Snow Village, Finland
We pulled up to a discreet looking entrance: a door surrounded by mounds of snow, tucked deep into the forests of Lainio, Finland. This is...
An Arctic Adventure in Swedish Lapland – Part 2
This is part 2 of a travel narrative describing our wilderness adventure with Aurora Retreat in Swedish Lapland. Don’t worry—if you missed part one,...
Sunday Snapshot | Vase Rock on Xiao Liuchiu | Taiwan Straight
This was taken just before sunset at Vase Rock on the western side of Xiao Liuchiu, a small island in the Taiwan Strait. By Matt Gibson...
The Northern Lights — Everything You Need to Know About Seeing the Aurora Borealis
When we first booked our plane tickets to Stockholm, we had no intention of making the journey up north to Lapland. To be completely honest, I don’t...
An Arctic Adventure in Swedish Lapland—Part 1
“The Wilderness holds more answers to questions than we have yet learned to ask.” Nancy Wynne Newhall I never used to be much of a...
Sunday Snapshot | Sunset Over A Fjord | Narvik, Norway
It was a long day. We had breakfast in Finland. We drove to Sweden. We then took a train to Norway. We had no accommodation booked, so we walked...






