Category: Travel
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Taiwan Food – A Scavenger Hunt
A lot of great food in Taiwan is pretty inexpensive. Therefore, I propose a Pokemon approach and try to catch ’em all. Here is a list for a scavenger hunt, send in your pics, and share what you’d add to this list!
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Fishing with Ross Outdoor Adventures
A ReviewI Did My Part for Sustainable Fishing and It Was Delicious! Consider this great experience gift for your next Father’s Day or other family event! My parents live in Minnesota, and ever since I can remember, they loved to fish. After ten years in the Pacific Northwest, it finally occurred to me to take my…
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3 Pro-tips for Your Road Trip
– Things We’ve Forgotten, NPS EditionAs folks get rolling out to the U.S. National Parks and the rest of the great outdoors for Summer, here are three things to know plus one bonus idea. 1. Watch for the AM radio sign for the latest updates and tune in! This is usually posted as a road sign as you’re driving in…
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Jökulsárlón Short Video
See more and subscribe at the Food The Wong Way YouTube Channel < Previous: Pure Icelandic Waters – Solid State – Jökulsárlón / Next: Driving the East Iceland Fjords >
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Travel Pro-tip: How to Pack Beer to Fly Home in One Piece
“How do you pack beer home when you fly?” -My old friend Kyle (readers may know him as the one who married an Iowan named Susannah*) This was the nudge to finally draft this post I’ve had in mind. I hope those of you over 21 find it handy as we head into holiday travel…
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Pro-tip Tuesday:
Unintended Extra Groceries + Tote HackDo you ever go grocery shopping and discover that you’re picking up 150% more than you intended to buy, that you are really hungry, and now you’re trying to figure out how to bike or walk it all home? I recently picked up a new trick for those reusable sacs (usually cloth or polyester of…
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Driving the East Iceland Fjords
< Previous: Jokulsarlon Short Video AirBnb in Holmur On Wednesday morning, a good breakfast spread included with our stay gave us a peek at the restaurant space at the AirBnB in Holmur (photo after the jump). It was easy to imagine it as a lively popular affair in the Summer. This was perhaps the best hosted breakfast…
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Pure Icelandic Waters: Solid State – Jökulsárlón
< Previous: Pure Icelandic Waters – Liquid State Entertainingly, my travelling companion’s mood lightened with the cold thermal pool debacle, and mine darkened with the rain. Plus wind. I don’t recall what else went on in my mind to dampen things and I don’t care to recall more. May have also been influenced by a morose…
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Tuesday: Pure Icelandic Waters
Liquid StateWater Water, Everywhere Woke up amazed to find myself in the dreamland of Iceland, excited to start the day. Kris was acting grumpy-pantsed, unclear why… We had a chance to catch breakfast from our host Snæbjörn in the flesh. I found our host accommodating but ambivalent about his home. He seemed not to like his area,…
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Monday: Glymur
We rose early to drive the two, three hours from Onundarhorn to hike Glymur Falls (3.8 miles, 1,000 ft elevation gain) in the only day forecasted to be sunny on our trip. It meant doubling back the way we came, but fortunately we were booked for two nights in the South. I was dragging, but…