helsinki

Today I got to try something new in my obsessive picture taking. One of my loverly birthday presents from the Captain was a super cool clip-on fisheye camera lens for my iPhone. A fisheye lens is a type of wide-angle lens that lets more visual information into the view. It…

Helsinki, 2:56 a.m. Traveling alone is something I recommend for all kinds of reasons, but mostly because when you are alone it is 100% normal and OK to be wide awake drinking champagne in my your hotel room at 2 a.m. I wasn’t expecting to be alone on this trip (hello, it…

Wow it is beautiful here. The summer sun barely dips below the horizon and then it’s back again, and the quality of the light is surreal, like something from a movie. Well, either that or I am dead and this is the lighting of the afterlife. Rule nothing out after…

Get comfortable and enjoy the story of how I almost was unable to get on my flight to Helsinki because of a rookie mistake. In this story, I am both the protagonist and the rookie and also maybe the villain. Hey. Remember how I was all packed and ready like…