Spain and Portugal - Across the Peninsula in One Day

With Special Guest Star, Wes WEINHOLD!!!

Visiting a Castle and Friends!

Greetz from Oslo!

A Hitchhiker's Guide to Europe - Somewhat hard to hear

Cousins, rain, and hiking

Preikestolen (or Pulpit Rock) is 604 meters above the fjord. The hiking trails are maintained by the Tourism Bureau of Norway (or something like that):

"Why," you may ask, "do we care at all about the Norwegian Tourist Forening?" Because several Norwegians have told us about them very proudly and with good reason: They maintain hundreds of huts around the country that anybody can go and sleep in and that are sometimes stocked with food. The fee is on the honor system, and you leave it in an envelope after your stay.

And to leave you with just a slice of what can happen when you keep contact with the family left in the homeland: Stina was in a room with 1st cousins twice removed, 2nd cousins once removed, 3rd cousins, and 3rd cousins once removed (everybody's eyes are on Ingeborg, Linda-in-the-foreground's one-year-old, eating and making a mess).

1st European Vlog!

Just to brag a little, that's the t-shirt I won for coming in 2nd at the M2010 Prerelease. Now I have FOUR t-shirts! (And two of them are Magic: the Gathering-related...)

Three Vlogs and then a break, incl. Top 5 Hitchhiking communications

Since we're here and stable for a little bit, we'll take a little blogging and vlogging break. Check back in about three weeks for new adventures! If you're in the Seattle area and want to know if, where, and when we busk (probably at Pike Place Market or Seattle Center), be sure to subscribe to our Twitter feed.

3 vlogs, including an interview with a ride

Thumbing it, catching a ride, reducing your carbon footprint - Hitchhiking is all about meeting people and discovering the world. These are posts for www.andjuggling.com

Budget Travel (Vlog #2)

Please note that in the above movie, Stina and I know how lucky we are to have family in a particular place who drove us from one part of town to the next. We are, however, given to understand that the public transit system is relatively thorough and costs under $2 including transfers from any part of the city to another part of the city.
Also, Chinese donuts are delicious, and my new favorite pastry.

Hitchhiking vlog #1

Hooray! We have a vlog! If you'd like to follow us on YouTube, our username is andjuggling.
A little plug for our camera: It's a Sony Cyber-shot, and it fit within our budget! We got it from the Kamera Korner in San Jose, owned by Stina's Papa Bob.

A follow-up to the video:
We were passed by three police cars total, at least one San Jose City Police and one County Police, and none of them stopped. We waited an hour with the sign with no luck. Then I put the sign down and just held out my thumb and we got a ride within 2 minutes to Fremont. Then in Fremont we tried without the sign for 10 minutes, then 5 with the sign and the man who picked us up said he never picked up hitchhikers, but he saw that the sign said San Ramon and he stopped for us. In which situations a sign may be beneficial vs. counterproductive are still a matter for debate.