If my blog has any readers I am going to assume they might enjoy a break from the Finland and Norway posts although, if I say so myself, the...

I will admit, up front, that this blog entry contains the worst photos of all.  Couldn't be helped.  Still May 30th.  Still coastal Norw...

Our second stop on the morning of May 30th was  Kjølnes Lighthouse in Norway.  It was gray, cold and windy.  From this point forward I am n...

We saw many tundra birds and many over and over.  We were in and out of the vans all day long.  Many of the birds we saw in the tundra lands...

It was May 28th and we came here, to Inari--Saariselkä Kaunispää in Lapland, for one bird.  It was a bird everyone wanted to see.  We arrive...