Happy Monday!!!
I am so excited because in just a few short days we are going to be getting picked up and taken to Chicago, enjoying a glass of wine in the terminal and perhaps a soft-pretzel, and then boarding our plane to Reykjavik! We have an hour layover before out next flight to Glasgow where we will be wandering, hiking, and documenting everything in Scotland. After a few days of that prettiness, we will fly back to Reykjavik where we have a Jeep rental set up and we plan to drive the entire Northern coast.
I love to travel. I love traveling without a real plan. I love renting a car, driving aimlessly, and having the freedom to pull over, get out and wander.
For today’s On My Mind Monday post I decided to write out where I want go, places I have been, and places we have plans set in stone to visit in the next several months . . .
Places I want to go . . .

• Coal Mine Canyon
• Antelope Canyon
• Banff National Park
• Galapogos Islands
• Australia
• Thailand
• Zion National Park
• Paris, France
• Bryce Canyon National Park
• Yosemite Falls
• Faroe Islands
• New Zealand
• Norway
• Portland, Oregon 
• Dallas, Texas
• Joshua Tree

Places I have been . . .

• Iceland (southern part of the country)
• New York City (3 times)
• Washington DC (I used to live and work there)
• Seattle, Washington
• Denver + Vail, Colorado (multiple times)
• Canada
• Phoenix, Arizona
• Mexico (both coasts, multiple times for weddings and vacation)
• Orlando + Jacksonville, Florida
• San Diego, California
• Pennsylvania – I love Pittsburgh (I have family that lives there and in SE PA and in 5th grade we took a field trip to Philadelphia)
• Indiana
• Germany (foreign exchange student in high school)
• Austria
• Idaho
• Ohio
• Kentucky
• Virginia
• West Virginia (We were married in Black Water Falls State Park in Davis, WV) Thank you Mannfrau for our wedding video: http://mannfrau.us/video/the-essence-of-ren-caleb
• Maryland (I used to live there)
• Michigan
• The Upper Peninsula

Places we have already initiated plans to go . . .

• Scotland – April 2017 – we leave in 3 days!!!
• Iceland  – April 2017 – we will be there in 6 days! We are exploring the northern portion of the country!!
• Minneapolis – May 2017 – we will be visiting my niece for her 1st birthday party!!
• Iceland – July 2017 – we are photographing a wedding there!!
• Napa, California – we are photographing a wedding there in 2018!!