After I left Trujillo on the bus, I arrived in Huaraz, which is one of my favorite cities in Peru, if not my favorite. Tucked up in the mountains with lots of nature in the surrounding area, it reminded me of my hometown, Jackson, WY.
The air was crisp and clear with a nice chill that made sure you stayed awake. I was in Huaraz for a couple days, but my main goal was to go hiking in the mountains. Continue reading
While I was living in Chicago, I had been studying online through colleges in Wyoming since the tuition was cheaper than studying in Chicago. As I progressed toward my degree, the possible classes that I could take online became fewer and fewer, and eventually, I had to take classes in person which meant that I had to move to Laramie, WY, to continue going to class.
In between the spring semester of 2011, which I took online while living in Chicago, and the fall semester (when I would have to be in Wyoming) I had a summer off. I had decided that I wanted to travel while simultaneously improving my terrible Spanish skills and it worked out that I would go to South America.
I didn’t plan everything out and instead opted to just go there without any plans and see where the wind blew me. As such, I purchased a flight into Lima, Peru, and I purchased a flight out of Bogota, Columbia, about 3 months afterwards. What happened between the 2 events would be up to destiny to decide.
I drove back home from Chicago and visited my family before going to the airport and flying to Lima.
While I was in Iceland, I had a few different beers, and all of them were expensive!
As I mentioned in my previous post, one of the places I got some beers was a craft beer shop I had discovered.
Almost two years ago now, I went to Iceland in April of 2016. I went primarily because there was a fanfest for an online game I was playing a lot of at the time, namely, EVE Online. I posted about some of my adventures in the game here and even made a few videos.
I was quite into EVE (addicted?), and I thought it would be fun to go to the annual fan meetup in Reykjavik, Iceland, where the fanfest is held since that’s where CCP, the company that develops of EVE, is located.
So I bought a ticket to the fanfest as well as a flight and hostel tickets. The day came, and it already started off with a hitch. My first of two flights was extremely delayed due to the pilots simply not showing up. I guess it was too early for them…
Since my first flight didn’t happen at all, I was put on a later flight, which of course meant that my connecting flight would be missed. In the end, I got to Reykjavik in the late evening when I should have arrived in the morning. I did, however, get a free bump up to business class which was kind of cool because I got to sit in the exclusive business lounge and drink unlimited beer from tap (which was about 60% foam, but hey, it was free).
I had booked some extra time outside of the fanfest so I could check out Reykjavik for a few days before the fanfest started, and that I did. Continue reading
