Driving down the elevated I-10 into New Orleans is a surreal experience. The view of the Superdome awakens memories of CNNs pictures of a flooded city and thousands upon thousands of stranded people. The fact that 80% of this city was under water only 4 years ago is hard to fathom – the city is [...]
Author Archives: Morten Rand-Hendriksen
Nov 08
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Lessons from a Swamp Tour
One of the “absolute must do” items we were told we had to check off on our list when visiting New Orleans was a swamp tour. Turns out that’s advice that is highly dependent on season and weather.
There are multiple companies that offer swamp tours around New Orleans, most of them operating in and around [...]
Nov 04
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10,000 Kilometers and Counting
Some time during the day as we made our way from Asheville, North Carolina to Williamsburg, Virginia, our odometer reached the 10,000 km mark (well, actually the odometer got accidentally reset in Albuquerque, New Mexico when it was at around 5,300 km and today it once again reached 5,000 km so combined they make 10,000) [...]
Nov 02
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Oak Alley Plantation
Driving down from Alexandria toward New Orleans we started talking about what we wanted to do once we got there. On the top of our list was visit a plantation and go on a swamp tour. Yeah, we’re real party animals, I know. As with just about everything else in the USA, there are either [...]
Oct 31
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Cowboy Up!
Anny already wrote a great article on our visit to the Fort Worth Stockyards so rather than repeating everything she said I’m going to share some photos and observations with you.
We didn’t actually plan to go to the Stockyards at all. In fact our plan was pretty much to just pass through Dallas on our [...]
Oct 31
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Happy Halloween!
We’re celebrating Halloween in the weirdest place on earth: Pigeon Forge in Tennessee. The pumpkin above is the one Morten drew and Angela carved at the Rogers’ house in Tyler, Texas when we visited Stephen – one of Anny’s fellow Best Job in the World top 50 candidates.
Oct 28
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Cadillac Ranch on Route 66
Everyone’s heard the song with the catchy chorus “get your kicks… on Route 66”, but few know where this mythical road is and what cities it connects. I was counted among the majority for whom the name is a mere cultural reference to a time past until we left Flagstaff, Arizona and I started noticing [...]
Oct 26
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Car Service, Nukes and Steak
Thursday turned out to be a day of huge contrasts and a long drive across state lines. It started off in Albuquerque, New Mexico where we had to get our car serviced. In Vancouver this is a big multi-hour ordeal and we were worried we’d have to stay in the city an extra day to [...]
Oct 25
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Petrified Forest and Painted Desert
Meteor Crater was actually just the first of two natural wonders we planned to see on Wednesday. The second one, located about 1 hour further down I-40, was Petrified Forest National Park. We arrived at Meteor Crater around 1:30pm and our 1 hour walking tour of the crater rim was at 2:15pm so we didn’t [...]
Oct 23
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Meteor Crater, Arizona
When I was a kid I was absolutely fascinated by science and nature, especially very large and very small things like quantum mechanics and space. I guess you could say I was a bit of a nerd. It was probably because I was always surrounded by popular science magazines and books courtesy of my parents [...]