We took a fun family vacation to Florida, including Disney World, and hopped on a Caribbean cruise with stops in Curaçao, Aruba, Cabo Rojo (Dominican Republic), and Coco Cay (Royal Caribbean’s private island in the Bahamas). We had an awesome time, but let’s be honest—the trip wasn’t exactly rich in culture… unless you count Mickey…
The Alaskan Idatarod
We kicked off our day a little later than usual—but with good reason. Today was the start of the legendary Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, and we were lucky enough to witness it from Fairbanks. Due to an unseasonably warm spell, the traditional starting point in Anchorage was too dry and lacked snow, prompting officials…
Fairbanks – Freeze to Hot Springs
Running on very little sleep after getting back around 3 AM from chasing the Northern Lights, we kickstarted the day with a much-needed boost: the hotel’s hearty breakfast buffet. A solid way to reset! After brushing the snow off the car (a true Fairbanks morning ritual), we made our way to the University of Alaska…
Alaska – Chasing Auroras
Eitan’s dream and big bucket list item, has always been to see the Aurora Borealis, also known as the Northern Lights. And finally, after many years of waiting, the solar maximum (more on this later) was happening this year. Eitan decided to pull the trigger, and after his father-in-law Dan bailed on him, my very…
Oaxaca – Mezcal and Petrified Waterfalls
Our last day of our Oaxaca trip and we choose another 13 hour tour!! yeey! We were actually dreading this one, but it was the best way to see all the sites and we are so glad we ended up doing it as it was a fantastic experience. This time, after some research form Eitan,…
Oaxaca – The Hip Neighborhoods
Today was another day of exploring the city of Oaxaca and its’ neighborhoods. After yesterday’s long tour, we just wanted to take it easy and walk around the other attractions we wanted to see. Walking past vendors of crickets is not unusual, as these are eaten as a snack by vendors. They have different flavors,…
Oaxaca – The Prehispanic Side
The next morning we were picked up by our tour bus to embark on a 10-hour tour around the main pre-hispanic archeological sites and other handcraft towns in between. We tried to find half day tours but they didn’t really exist. We weren’t sure how the all day tour would go with Ariela, but actually…
Oaxaca Centro
Our next adventure was divided into 2 parts, a four days with the Wolfs for lots of fun and relaxing in Puerto Vallarta, and then just us three for a trip to Oaxaca at the end. We spent 4 full days in the state of Oaxaca, making Oaxaca City our base to explore the surrounding…
Mt Rainier National Park
Mt Rainier National park has implemented a reservation system to limit the number of people that can enter the park on any given day. Eitan, of course, booked our time slot months ago, and he chose the 7:00 to 9:00 am one, which is the earliest. That means waking up early again to drive about…
Crossing Washington: Sequim, Port Townsend and Poulsbo
Today wasn’t a completely pre-planned day so Eitan started researching all the places to explore on our drive to Tacoma. Suddenly there was plenty to do, which led to a very full day – what better way to celebrate our 9th Wedding Anniversary! Where we were staying, Sequim, is known for the Lavender Trail. We…
Olympic National Park
There are several ways to get from Seattle to Olympic National Park, we chose the fun route that included a Ferry crossing from Edmonds to Kingston. This ferry also can save you a couple hours of driving time if there is a lot of traffic in the city. Here is the map of all of…
The Space Needle
The next morning, after waiting for the ducks to cross the street, we had a fantastic breakfast in a small coffee shop on the way to the Space Needle. When we were researching things to do in Seattle, many people recommended to skip the Space Needle and go to another observation deck instead. We decided…
Seattle: Parks, Salmons, and Airplanes
Today’s blog post actually happened at the end of our trip after visiting the National Parks, but for the sake of simplicity and continuity, we will post this one as the 3rd day in Seattle. On our last full day in Seattle, we scratched off some additional areas we wanted to explore. First, we went…
Seattle: From Elliott Bay to Lake Union
When we woke up, we realized we had a notification from Alaskan Airlines that our flight was delayed 3 hours, luckily, we were still at home and were able to switch flights to the next one, which was supposed to depart around 20 minutes earlier than our delayed flight. This ended up being a great…
Iceland – Akureyri to Kirkjufell
W drove towards Eyjafjörður to visit the famous Turf Houses or Laufas. Up to 20-30 people were living here at Laufás, including domestics. The furnishing inside is from around 1900 and shows how Icelanders were living at that time. We were able to see inside some of these houses. They even had a church! There…
Iceland – Egilsstadir to Akureyri
As always, here is the map of today’s road trip on the north side of Iceland The north of Iceland offers a completely different nature experience. Some of these places look like you are in another planet like Mars. After a long drive starting in Egilsstadir, our first stop was at the Namafjall geothermal area….
Iceland – Hofn to Eglisstadir
Today’s adventure took us from Hofn to Eglisstadir (I will be adding maps to our blog moving forward to show exactly in the map where are all these stops). We jumped in the car led by our amazing driver Dan, and started our drive to the Vestrahorn, a mountain in south-east Iceland, noted for its…
Iceland – Vik To Hofn
Eitan woke up early that morning to drive to Black Sand Beach or Reynisfjara, while the rest of the family slept a bit more. Reynisfjara is not the only black-sanded beach in Iceland, but it is probably the most iconic. As an island simmering with volcanic activity, some of Iceland’s beaches have black sand because…
Iceland – Reykjavik to Vik
Day 2 of the Icelandic road trip was packed with exciting sights around the famous “Golden Circle” The first stop was at the Thingvellir National Park. After some quick changing of clothes we walked toward the main area. Iceland is divided by the Mid-Atlantic Rift; some parts of it, such as the Westfjords and Reyjavík,…
Iceland Origins – Reykyavik
We spent around 1 week road-tripping around Iceland in 2018 with Sarah’s family, and I finally have the time to work on the Iceland trip blog!! I will be dividing the blog post per day, so they will be a little long and will primarily include photos as I don’t want to bore you all…
Quebec – The Last Day
Our first stop today was the Quebec Citadel, also known as La Citadelle, which is an active military installation and the secondary official residence of both the Canadian monarch and the governor-general of Canada. It is located atop Cap Diamant, adjoining the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City, Quebec. The citadel contains the oldest military…
Quebec – Old Town
The rain welcomed us this morning while getting out of the Airbnb to start exploring, so we had to take shelter in the amazing galleries around Old Quebec. The art was very unique and cool, and we almost bought a painting. But we realized there are better ways to spend our money right now than…
Montmorency Falls
Today we were traveling for a couple hours to Quebec City. Before leaving Montreal we quickly stopped at the world-famous St-Viateur bagel shop to pick up some breakfast for the road. In contrast to the New York-style bagel, the Montreal bagel is smaller, thinner, sweeter and denser, with a larger hole, and is always baked…
Montreal – Old Town
After a quick breakfast in the Airbnb we took the metro northbound to the Little Italy area to visit the Marche Jean Talon. It is one of the oldest public markets in Montréal. Inaugurated in May 1933, it was first called the Marché du Nord, but in 1983, its name was changed in honor of…
Montreal – The City
We started our day with a fruit fest breakfast at the Airbnb as we realized the excessive amount of fruit we bought the previous day. We took the metro straight to Downtown for our first stop: The Barbie Expo. Ariela was very excited about the “underground train” which she first rode in Toronto. This expo…
Montreal – Jour 1
We started the day with a 2.5 hour drive to Montreal. The drive is easy and beautiful, passing many nice green lush areas. We were warned many times about drivers in this side of Canada, but holy moly, they drive bad over here. Aggressive, without patience, some super slow, and others thinking they are on a F1…
Ottawa – The Capital
After a quick breakfast in our Airbnb, we started the day by wasting time trying to find parking around parliament hill. For a city this small, the traffic is abysmal and the drivers lack driving skills and are aggressive. We spent about 40 mins driving about 5 miles and after finding parking lots already full…
Toronto to Ottawa
After spending a couple of nice family days in Toronto for Sarah’s family event, Simon’s Bar Mitzvah, we went on a nice road trip to Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec. The following post will just be about the road trip section of our vacation. Ariela loves to fly! So the whole airport experience is probably always…
Savannah Last Minute Daytrip
Only North and South Carolina were part of the itinerary for this trip, but we kept saying that it would have been awesome to visit Savannah as well, we just didn’t have the time… or that is what we thought. After 2 days in Charleston traveling the “Eitan way” (most of you will know what…
Charleston and The Start of The American Civil War
We started our day early by taking a ferry to Fort Sumter, which is only accessible by boat. Of course, this was the sight Eitan was most excited about as it is where the civil war started and it is packed with military history. The visitor center has a small museum, we did not arrive…
North to South Carolina
We started the day early to start the drive from Asheville to Charleston in South Carolina. But before leaving Asheville we stopped at the famous Biscuit Head restaurant for breakfast. A very dangerous thing to eat before the start of a 4.5 hours drive, but Eitan was brave enough to try it. Eitan ordered the…
The Great Smokey Mountains National Park
One of Eitan’s bucket list items is to visit the top National Parks in the U.S; there are 63 National Parks in the US, and while visiting all of them might take some time, we are OK with visiting the most famous ones first. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park usually lands in the top…
The Biltmore Estate
On our last day in Ashville we visited the famous Biltmore Estate, which is the main attraction around the Asheville area. It takes around 30 minutes to drive to get there from the city center. Biltmore Estate is a huuuge area that includes multiple attractions, it really takes 20 minutes to get from the Estate…
Asheville, Beer, Hippies, and Art
We started our day very early the way Eitan likes it, but this time we had a third traveler so it takes a little bit more time to get everything packed up. We ate breakfast in the hotel and started our 2.5 hour drive to the town of Ashville. Asheville is a town that is…
A Stop in Charlotte
After several years of hiatus from writing this blog, we are finally back! Yes, there are a lot of posts to come from places like Iceland, Hawaii, Mexico, and many more!! We had a wedding for our cousin to attend in Toronto, Canada this summer so we decided to visit some of the Southern United…
Lima and The Pisco Sour
We visited Lima at the beginning and at the end of the trip, so this post will include both of those visits. We arrived at Lima at night and after freshening up at the hotel we went to meet Hanna and Thomas who had arrived in Peru a couple nights ago. We met in a…
Lake Titicaca – Uros and Taquile
After arriving to Puno’s bus station, our guide picked us up and transported us to the pier where we would be taking the boat to the Uros islands. By Pier, I mean somewhere in the middle of the road with access to the water where a boat could dock. There was really nothing else there. …
The Route of The Sun
There are several ways to travel from Cusco to Puno, we chose the one-day tourist bus called the Inka Express that included several stops along the way in the so-called “Route of the Sun”. The bus leaves very early in Cusco and the whole trip lasts about 10 hours. Our first stop was San Pedro…
Machu Pichu
Its been a few months since the last post, but we haven’t forgotten our dear readers! After visiting the amazing town of Ollantaytambo we jumped in the tourist train to travel to the town of Aguas Calientes. This is the hub where you need to spend the night if you are trying to do any…
Our Next Adventure
WhereisNoodle.com is departing on their next adventure in November 2020. But no need to book a flight for this one (good thing, given Coronavirus!) … On March 9th, we not only got to celebrate 5 years of being legally married, but Sarah found out something else that morning. Somehow she managed to go to work and waited until…
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