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Banff Road Trip- August 19-26, 2018

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This post is going to be basically just a picture dump. The road trip was amazing and I want to go back. But, for a longer period of time. A one week road trip up there was a nice end to the summer, but spending at least 2 weeks up there in the future would be amazing. We left Sunday evening, the 19th from Provo. We picked up the 4th member of the party in SLC. She had gotten off a plane from Guatemala that morning, so she was a trooper for heading out for Canada immediately. We ended up in Pocatello, Idaho that night and found an awesome spot off the road on the hills West of the city to camp. Monday, we put alot of miles behind us, Idaho Falls, Butte, Missoula, then we started having problems with my car.... The engine was running rough and misfiring during acceleration. Being familiar with cars, I was pretty sure it was my spark plugs being worn down and misfiring. We took it slow into Kalispell and called the AutoZone there and asked for mechanic recommendations. All the ...
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Iceland! July 6-20, 2018

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     Earlier this year while in the middle of the winter/spring semester of college, I was living with one of my married brothers. Working almost full time while attending flight school full time had me stressed out and I did not have the time I wanted to make it out at least every other weekend or so. I was in the middle of a study session and just couldn't do it anymore. I wandered out to the living room where my brother and sister in law were relaxing after getting home from work. I expressed my stress and started talking about some trip ideas. The idea of going out of the country came up and excited me. I was 20 years old and had never been out of the country. We immediately pulled up Google and started searching for cheap flights. My sister in law had flown on WowAir before and we found round trip tickets to Iceland out of LAX for about $450! That sealed the deal and right then and there we bought the tickets for a 2 week trip in July. That motivated me for the rest ...
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Location: Southern Region, Iceland
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