Our apartment at Høgskoleveien 2 is located between the two most visible buildings on the NTNU campus. The first is the studentersamfundet, or student union – a red circular building that includes concert venues, bars, and restaurants. Its unique design and location next by the river make it a landmark in town, and it also […]

Despite how it might appear on this blog, the vast majority of our time is fairly mundane. In fact, there is really no way we could physically maintain all the travels we write about here 24 hours a day. Even if we could, I don’t know that I’d want to. I really like having downtime. […]

Since Gavin has been spending the year communing with “his people,” I also wanted the opportunity to visit my ancestral homeland. Like many Americans of European descent I have a mix of ancestry, but my maternal grandfather is Irish, and so I’ve always sort of wanted to go to Ireland. Unfortunately, we picked about the […]

Last weekend we went to Hitra, an island in the Trondheimsfjord, about two and a half hours northwest of Trondheim. I had been planning this trip for two weeks and modeled it after Destination Unknown,[1] an annual social event at my Eating House at Davidson College. [googlemaps https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m28!1m12!1m3!1d456632.23227507586!2d9.006613029392005!3d63.44428130641948!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!4m13!3e6!4m5!1s0x466d319747037e53%3A0xbf7c8288f3cf3d4!2sTrondheim!3m2!1d63.4305149!2d10.3950528!4m5!1s0x4612599a69134297%3A0x2b2b903137c774d5!2sHitra!3m2!1d63.526012599999994!2d8.757208799999999!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sno!4v1507050866815&w=600&h=450] The Eating House served the role of […]