2025 Travel Recap

Our 2025 was filled with new adventures and lots of travel to spend time with loved ones, both domestic and abroad. We started the year with road trips around the Mountain West to visit friends and family in Colorado and Utah and hike in new-to-us national parks in Utah and Nevada, including Capitol Reef, Bryce …

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Exploring St. Gallen, Switzerland

After several wonderful days in Innsbruck, Austria, we headed to our AirBnB in the far western part of the country so we had easy access to our first stop in Switzerland - St. Gallen. St. Gallen is primarily known for its old town as well as being the home of the UNESCO World Heritage site …

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2024 Travel Recap

Our 2024 was one for the books. It was our first full year taking time off work, and we made the best of it by traveling in the U.S. and abroad, spending time with friends and family, crossing bucket list experiences off our list, and focusing on our health. This year's travels took us across …

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Day Trips from Helsinki, Finland

For our first trip to Finland, we decided to focus on the southern part of the country. We made Helsinki our homebase for the week and spent our time exploring the city and some of the surrounding islands as well as taking day trips via train to nearby cities of interest. If you're looking for …

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Exploring Islands Around Helsinki, Finland

I am embarrassed to admit that until I started researching things to do during our week in Helsinki, Finland, I didn't know that Finland has the world's largest archipelago with more than 80,000 islands off its coastline. Mind blown. Of course we had to add visiting some of these islands to our itinerary! With only …

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Several Days in Helsinki, Finland

After our incredible two-week road trip through the Baltic States, we took a short ferry ride from Tallinn to Helsinki for our week in Finland. While there is much more to Finland than Helsinki and the surrounding area, our time in the southern part of the country gave us a taste of Finnish culture. We …

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Baltic States: Two-Week Road Trip Itinerary

As I was planning our trip to Scandinavia, I decided to add on a couple weeks in the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania). It was our first time in these countries so we opted for a two-week road trip, starting and ending in Tallinn, Estonia. We loved the experience, and it ended up being …

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