Lost in Stockholm

I only spent a few weeks in Isafjordur, and by far it’s been one of the best cities I have every visited. Mostly because of the friends I made but that, it’s still so routed in nature. Here are a few photos from my time there.

The Viking man. We meet him while taking a field trip with the summer program at Háskólasetur Vestfjarða and received a history lesson on how the northern vikings lived and fished 1000 years ago.

A storm is approaching

One of the bakeries in town called Gamla Bakarid. Really tasty breads and sweets, like the Vienerbrod. Mmmmm, so tasty!

Here’s the view of the little city. It only took 20 minutes to walk up and you could go higher.

Fog descending from the mountains.

Ohhh so yummy fish! I wrote more about Tjoruhusid, the little fish restaurant at the end of the town road. Seriously, best food ever. Best. The fish soup, something I’m not so fond of, was the best I have ever had.

Near the restaurant is where fish was weighed and taken to the market. This of the fish scales used.

Nothing about Sweden or Swedish people today. It’s about our awesome roadtrip through California, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada. Here are a few photos from the roadtrip along with the map of our route. After sleeping the night in the car at an RV park, we drove to Bryce Canyon and continued north to Salt Lake City that very day. Below are a few photos from southern Utah. I love that state and want to see more of it in the future.

Below is the Vermillion Cliffs that borders Arizona and Utah. Part of the cliffs traverse Grand Escalante National Park. This is definitely worth seeing. We traveled on highway 89 east towards Page when night descended. However, go see the Vermillion Cliffs national park (we didn’t and wish we had). You can find information about it here.

We slept in the Jimmy for the night at some RV park. It was near freezing outside and we were stupid enough to not have real blankets. Twice in the middle of the night we turned the car on to get some heat. At least we work up at sunrise and were able to enjoy the sun and the many hours to travel.

The awesome Bryce Canyon. It was around 6:30AM and you could see the moon!

This was in a tiny town, Panguitch. I love the old style buildings, it really reminded me of the wild west. How cool!

And finally a map of our trip. I will try to attach images later.

View Roadtrip SF-LA-Las Vegas-Grand Cayon-Salt Lake-Reno-SF in a larger map

Today isn’t Monday, but in the interest in staying on top of the blog, somewhat, I figured I should publish a post with new photos. I have been off of earth the past few weeks and it was amazing. I spent two awesome weeks in the US, followed by another week of ignoring the twitterati and blogosphere. Yes, real life stuff is great. ;) Now I’m back to real life in Sweden.

Here are photos from roadtrip in the southwest US in Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon is the largest canyon in the world. At 6000 feet in depth, where the highest point is 8800 feet, the Canyon represents the finest representation of Earth’s evolutionary time periods. The oldest section of the canyon, located at the bottom of the shelf, is about 1.8 billion years old. When you look at the cliffs, you can see the striations of different periods in time.

To visit the Canyon, you have to decide to see the North Rim or South Rim; basically northern side or southern side of the canyon. We visited the North Rim (I visited the South Rim twice when I was younger) and it offers a much more staggering and sharp view of cliffs and landscape. Plus, the North Rim of the Canyon is only visited by 20% of the total visitors; less people to deal with and more parking spaces available.

Because we were not prepared for the roadtrip or any amount of real hiking, we hiked down only 800 feet to the Coconino Layer at 7400 feet. Nevertheless, the view was awesome. Here’s one photo below.

Afterward, we saw another point on the North Rim called the Northeast Viewpoint.

For the Swedes out there, forget visiting NYC, go see the US Southwest and all the glorious natural beauty America has to offer. Swedish people always claim to love nature but few venture outside the Big Apple or San Francisco. Do something awesome. If you have questions about what to see, just drop a comment.

Next photo post will have photos from Vermilion Cliffs, Page Lake, and Bryce Canyon.

I am beginning a new series of articles on Lost in Stockholm entitled Swedish Photos on Mondays (well maybe later I can find a more graceful title).

Today’s photos are ones I took two years ago when visiting Sweden for the first time.  They are both of the Stockholm’s tunnelbana (the metro line). I love taking photos on the metro, you learn a lot about a city while riding the train. When I get bored at home, I sometimes ride a line end to end, to see where people live and where IS that end of the line station going to.

The tunnelbana is empty.  Notice the blue and gold colors on the metro; same as the national colors of Sweden.

Reflecting view from inside one of the train cars while traveling on the green line on the t-bana.