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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Top Tens of Travel

When I was in grade school, I remember making top ten lists with my friends. Top ten boys, top ten songs, top ten movies, etc. The order was susceptible to change at any moment, but the idea was popular for years. I still find myself making similar lists today--facebook asks for my favorite movies/books/etc., my significant …

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