Yesterday, we drove about 3 hours into the Southeast of Iceland towards the Solheimajokull Glacier. We had booked a glacier hiking tour and were instructed to meet at the parking lot by 12pm. We left a litte early so we would get a chance to stop off at the nearby waterfall in Skogar, just the…

Appropriate title for my first post about Iceland. With approximately 4 hours of daylight a day in December and January, I wondered why exactly I had decided to come here in the middle of the winter. Of course, the lure of seeing the Northern Lights would be at the top of that list, but also,…

Bucket lists. Everyone has them, but they are a special part of a traveler's life. Just as we cross one amazing adventure off the list, we add another, to the point where it sometimes seems impossible to satisfy our insatiable appetites for new experiences and places visited. At the top of my bucket list since…

This past weekend I traveled to Boston, one of my favorite U.S. cities, to attend the annual National Council for Social Studies Conference. I arrived a few days earlier than usual as this is my first year as a doctoral student at Teachers College, Columbia and I wanted to attend the CUFA (College and University…