After spending a week in Iceland it feels like there’s nothing left to come back for. It’s easy to see why this rugged, open-spaced adventure destination is so popular; accessible waterfalls, hiking and outdoors make covering the entire island a piece of cake. Coming from the western United States though I can’t help but feel that the rustic charm is better reserved for urbanites; the wide open spaces seem reminiscent of our American west and the diversity in features is similar (without beaches) to New Zealand. Highlights included eating whale (absolutely delicious — I will now advocate not to save whales but instead eat them), horse, puffin. I enjoyed walking on my third glacier (after Zermatt and the Fox glacier), sea angling in Reykjavik, standing on two separate tectonic plates at the same time, wilderness ATVing and a myriad of waterfalls.
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I have arrived into the Czech Republic and after a week of transitioning to a new timezone, work place and lifestyle — I love it. I write this from a small cafe serving as respite from an exhilarating, exhausting week of arrival. In such a short time I have made 70 new friends, eaten delicious (and copious!) food, walked over twenty five miles in exploration, become infatuated with and humbled by Iyengar yoga, and rekindled my enjoyment of Crossfit — in addition to working full-time. Though I have made time to record happenings in my journal, time itself is fleeting and demanded as the opportunities for exploration, companionship and learning are ubiquitous. I expect a continual evolution in myself to follow from these catalysts afforded by the daily challenges to adapt, grow and lea
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