Category: travel

  • Meet the Brunkeberg Ridge Tunnel. Stockholm has a ridge running through it, thanks to ice age shenanigans. As the city grew up on either side of it, crossing it was a pain, especially in the age of power by horses. Then this genius entrepreneur talked the powers that be into letting him build a tunnel…

  • Just wrapped up six days of hiking on the islands surrounding Stockholm. They weren’t tough days; we didn’t log more than 9 miles on any given day, but it’s a couple decades since I logged these kinds of miles several days in row. I’m thanking all of the Nia dance practice in the past year,…

  • Stockholm loves its lilacs, which are blooming now everywhere. So many enormous lilac trees fill so many gardens, that the aroma of the blooms, swirls around all day. That was yesterday. Today, we are on Dalaro, one of the many islands in the archipelago. And the lilacs crowd all the lanes. From soft white to…