Africa, Morocco
Jonathan Jung
THE SAHARA

September 27, 2017

Today was a looooong drive from Fes to the Sahara just outside of the city of Merzouga. A friend of a friend runs the Sahara Garden. Brahim coordinated everything for us and welcomed us upon our arrival with open arms. Truly an amazing human being. We were welcomed with dinner and singing and dancing around a bonfire.

THE SAHARA
Africa, Morocco
Jonathan Jung
CHEFCHAOUEN

September 24, 2017

Our second stop in Morocco was the blue city of Chefchaoen. A small city located up on a hill, wandering thru the medina surrounded by so many shades of blue was quite a different experience from Tangier. We stayed at Casa Perleta, a small bed and breakfast recommended by our friend. It was perfectly located within the upper hill area of the medina. The blue hues of the walls of Chefchaoen are believed to have originated when the Jews came while escaping Hilter in the 1930s. The blue is said to serve as a reminder to lead a spiritual life while symbolizing the sky and heaven.

CHEFCHAOUEN
Europe, Iceland
Jonathan Jung
ICELAND - CHASING THE AURORA BOREALIS

September 11 - 15, 2017

Enroute to our close friends' wedding in Greece we found a cheap flight to Paris via Reykjavik, Iceland and decided to take advantage and do a little stopover in an effort to (fingers crossed) see the northern lights. We decided to restrict our few days to just the southern highlights along the coast. The first thing we noticed was that even though it was supposedly shoulder/low season in Iceland there were significantly more people than when we came the year before in August.

ICELAND - CHASING THE AURORA BOREALIS

canyonlands

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CANYONLANDS NATIONAL PARK DAY 2 AFTERNOON

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CANYONLANDS NATIONAL PARK DAY 2 AFTERNOON

After heading back from town, we decided to have lunch by the rim of the canyon. Unfortunately, a thunderstorm decided to move in at the same time. We ate lunch in the car, but were blessed with incredible sunny skies in the afternoon allowing us to hike to False Kiva, a Class II archeological site off the beaten path and no official trail. Luckily based off of reviews, we knew to stop by the visitor center and they were showed us some landmarks to look for so we wouldn’t get lost.

The thunderstorms had all passed leaving us with an amazing sunset to watch just a short walk from our campsite overlooking the Green River Canyon.

- Allie and Jonathan

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CANYONLANDS NATIONAL PARK DAY 2 MORNING

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CANYONLANDS NATIONAL PARK DAY 2 MORNING

How often do we really get up to watch the sunrise? Truth be told...it's not very often.

We decided to make it happen on our last day in Canyonlands and did the short hike to Mesa Arch, where the sunrise view thru the arch was supposed to be insane. Well…there just happened to be about 30+ photographers there trying to get the PERFECT shot…so we decided to go a little bit off to the side and enjoy the sun rising over the canyon instead.

Still pretty incredible.

- Allie and Jonathan

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CANYONLANDS NATIONAL PARK DAY 1

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CANYONLANDS NATIONAL PARK DAY 1

Feeling pretty small here in Canyonlands. This place is UNREAL. I don’t know how my family missed this place on other trips, but this is a definite must visit place. The first day we hiked to Grand View Point, White Rim Overlook and Mesa Arch. All amazing.

This is one of our top parks so far. The views are just completely insane.

I’ll let the photos speak for themselves.  

- Jonathan