Colter McQuay

After Egypt it was off to Nepal, 3 flights stopping in 2 different middle eastern countries... what could go wrong.

We recently visited Plitvice Lakes National Park. A Unesco Heritage site, marveled for it's natural beauty. As with most of the sites we have seen over our trip, we needed to fight our way through Peak Season to get there, and though it was beautiful, my memories of this place will not be of its majesty but of something else...

They say that people travel to find themselves. I always thought this was one of those proverbial sayings based on an ironic twist of words. Something you might hear from a life long monk or Karate Sensei. Then I went traveling with my wife Holly.

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.

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!