Exposition Our connecting flight from Iceland landed in Frankfurt, Germany – the closest city to Budapest that WOW Air flies to. I gave us two nights in Frankfurt to get over our jetlag, explore a bit of the city and (ironically) allow time for delayed luggage to catch up with us. The irony, of course,…

One of the joys so far of the trip was celebrating Chad’s 41st birthday in Iceland. We arrived about 10:30 a.m. and picked up our rental car from Sixt. The car worked out great for us and we used it to drive the Golden Circle route to the main Icelandic natural sites that are close…

At long last, we have arrived in Europe for our first leg of our experiment in travel and freedom. Our house has been rented out to wonderful tenants, all of our stuff is safely stored and our Google Fi phones are working exactly as expected (free texting!). Things are going well, but it has been…