Norway

Exploring foreign countries is an exciting experience filled with new discoveries and unexpected similarities. Even a trip to the grocery store can be an adventure, as you navigate through aisles of unfamiliar products and attempt to decipher labels in foreign languages. You can travel to foreign countries and figure things out.  Sure everything is different, …

I took an excursion from Bergen, sailing north on a super high-speed catamaran past some of the thousands of islands on the Norwegian coastline. Our vessel entered the magnificent Sognefjord fjord and sped for hours to its very end. I grew up in Virginia in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and fjords look …

I next took a train to the west coast of Norway from Oslo and noticed the train seemingly to be continually going up. At one stop, the doors opened, and I saw snow! A moment of panic ensued as I realized I was ill-prepared for such wintry conditions. However, the train continued its journey through the snow-covered …