Our travels through Portugal have been amazing, but also challenging at times. As a couple, Holly and I have had our challenges and our ups and downs. Times of feeling a bit home sick to times of feeling a bit actually sick. Portugal's beautiful landscape has provided an immersive analogy for these ebbs and flows that we have been riding through our adventure.

Time change and sleep deprevation make for some strange decisions. So we developed a strategy to give us the best change of making good choices.

With Iceland behind us, it was time to head to the second country of our trip - France!

The Notebook Project was an idea that came we started planning for our trip. The idea was to randomly leave notebooks in indiscriminate locations throughout our epic adventure with the goal that people would find them and write in them. In a nutshell, it's an inversion of the message in a bottle idea. Instead of one message floating in the ocean searching for a recipient, it's a bottle, floating around the world in search of messages.

In hind sight, we could have spent much more time in Iceland as it was incredible. We spent 6 full days driving through, over, and around it's majestic beauty. It's possible that the landscape was too beautiful. Picturesque hot pots nestled in the mountain sides, powerful waterfalls, geothermal martian landscapes, black sand coast lines, and we only had 6 days!

The last 10 days have been a whirlwind. Defend a Masters, Emcee a close friends wedding and leave for a trip of a lifetime. Sprinkle in some family meals and a few happy tears in there for good measure.