A New Year’s Travel Resolution

December 31, 2007 · Leave a Comment 

All good travel starts with an idea. And what’s a more comfortable way to gather those ideas than armchair traveling with In The Know Traveler?

To get your adventures started, let In The Know Traveler and a list put together by the United Nations help. While the UN is an organization that you don’t usually associate with travel recommendations, each year they rank their 175 member countries on living standards such as real income, health, and education. Why not set your travel sights on places where the... [Read more]

Random Thoughts on Iceland

June 8, 2007 · 1 Comment 

I wasn’t sure what compelled me to visit, so I told everyone that I decided to scream naked on a fjord — It seemed just as good as any other reason. I eventually bared all on a deserted hill just outside of Patreksfjordur and yelled at the top of my lungs at the emptiness of the West Fjords. I set my camera on delayed shutter. The picture is very unflattering and to this day I am not sure what drew my to Iceland. I was not alone. I ran into... [Read more]

The Wild World of Icelandic Cuisine

March 14, 2006 · Leave a Comment 

I knew I wasn’t in Kansas anymore when the girl sitting next to me explained that Icelanders don’t have family names. I was still 30,000 feet in the air over the North Atlantic, and I was already intrigued with Iceland. I had only heard stories of the little island country, and they sounded too good to be true – stories about the people being shockingly beautiful and highly educated, the direct descendents of Viking explorers. Stories about the island being covered with natural hot springs and giant glaciers—a... [Read more]