Monthly Archives: June 2018

9 days in Scandinavia

debs/ June 30, 2018

My parents wanted to piggy back on my whole post-conference kerfuffle and met us in Olso after the WWOOFing leg of our trip.

If it were up to my parents, they would have signed up for a Chinese Bus Tour to sight-see some bus-accessible, ultra-touristy “Natural Wonders”.  If it were up to me, well, you know what I’d be up to. The thing is, my parents travel exclusively by Chinese Bus Tourism. Meanwhile, I would throw myself into a fjord if I had to go on one more Chinese Bus Tour in my life (even if they were taking me to the parts of Scandinavia with “Natural Wonders”).

The only way we can reconcile this conundrum is for me to plan the trip and for them to follow along as if I were their amateur Chinese Bus Tour Guide.

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WWOOFing in Norway: Odds and Ends

debs/ June 15, 2018

It’s been almost a year since I went to the conference in Munich that started all this and I’m getting self-conscious and kind of ashamed that I am still writing about a 2 month experience over a > 6 month time span … almost 12 months later ….

To put this post in perspective, this (probably the last) part of a series of posts about WWOOFing in Norway so far:

This post will be a compilation of micro-stories that fell through the cracks.

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