100th Post!

This post marks by 100th published post on this blog, Passport to Adventure!  Well it's big quite the adventure since starting the blog in 2011, and I want to say thank you to my loyal readers as well as those who simply pass by.  Originally created as a means to share my travels with family and friends back home, this blog has continued to be just that while also allowing me an outlet to record stories and some of my favorite pictures, just like a journal. Sometimes I share my thoughts on important topics, and other time I simply enjoy sharing a few pictures from a sunny day.

Now four years later, it's interesting to see the number of people who have visited my site: 7,570 visits as of today!  Wow!  Blogger can even give me some statistics who that is: the large majority of my audience is in the U.S., but I've also had visitors from France, Norway, Russia, Germany, the U.K., Poland, and Canada among others. 

My most visited and popular post is about Alesund and Mount Slogen.  This post has drawn people in even from various Google searches!  It includes my favorite photo, pictured below.  I love the picture because it's incredible and breathtaking, but also because of the wonderful story and journey that it took to reach that point in my life.  

 The photo was taken by my friend Brian on our long-weekend trip away from Oslo International Summer School.  We decided that we wanted to go hiking and experience the fjords of Norway.  We made a skeleton of a plan, and after a couple wrong turns, this was the unexpected result.  I remember standing on that rock, palms a little sweaty, legs on the verge of shaking, looking out over the blue fjord.  It was just the two of us on the top of that outcropping for a few minutes, and at that moment, nothing else mattered. 

It just goes to show that some of the most wonderful moments in life are the least expected.  With that, I urge all you, my readers, to take risks once in a while, find a new adventure, or simply look at the beauty in your life.  It's all around. 

Thank you,
Danielle