http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Barry-Rogge Account of my attempt to see the world, meet new people, and live to tell about it. Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:19:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After leaving my sister's home in late May, I spent a week in Oregon and Washington catching up with family. From there I flew back to New Orleans where I was met at the airport by my parents who I hadn't seen in 15 months. After settling in and playing ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Barry-Rogge/full-circle.html As I sit here in my sister's house surrounded by scenes of American surburbia, I find that the memories of my trip are beginning to fade as they always do. The tastes, smells, and sounds are starting to dull and are becoming harder to recall. It appears that I will remember my trip ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Barry-Rogge/emotional-outpourings-and-future-of-the-blog.html Since my return to the US, I have been asked some questions mulitple times so I thought it would make a good blog topic to answer them. http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Barry-Rogge/trip-thoughts-and-frequently-asked-questions.html For those interested in such things, I have decided to write a page with some statistics about my trip. Hopefully some will be useful to someone and some will probably just be odd but here they are anyway. http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Barry-Rogge/trip-statistics.html Day 8 in Iceland dawned bright, but windy. I packed the car and continued my trip east. The drive today was dominated by the icefield of Vatnajokull. This is the biggest icefield in Europe. It stretches for 150 km along the coast and into the interior. Numerous glaciers descend toward ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Barry-Rogge/iceland-part-2.html The Norrona sailed out of Torshavn harbor at 5:00 pm sharp. After checking in, I went to find my cabin on deck 6. I was happy to discover that this time I had a cabin to myself. After plopping down my bags, I went out to the open deck to ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Barry-Rogge/iceland-part-1.html I am now sitting in the library of Reykjavik using the Internet, but I do not have enough time to do a full blog update. Internet access has been difficult to obtain here. Everywhere has wireless, but I have no computer. I will be at my sister's house tomorrow and ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Barry-Rogge/iceland-update-in-about-3-days.html The Faroe Islands have got to be the most unusual place (terrain wise) that I have seen on my trip. Not only is the complete and utter lack of trees striking enough (even deserts have small shrubs, but not here) but the lack of variety of other flora is also ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Barry-Rogge/faroe-islands.html After saying goodbye to Brian and his roomate, I took the last train of the night to Charles de Gaulle Airport. When I arrived, I had to go to all the terminals before finding out from which one I would fly. I finally learned this from a guard as the ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Barry-Rogge/denmark-the-land-of-the-vikings.html My flight to Paris took off on time, but the pilot thought he was driving a fighter jet and took us up to cruising altitude with a steep ascent and lots of stomach churning drops (reverse for the descent.) As I was sitting next to a window, I got to ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Barry-Rogge/paris.html