Travels with My Mortgage
My blog is called Travels With My Mortgage because my one consistent travel companion in the last 11 years has always been my house payment. I didn’t start traveling extensively until I was in my early-30s, after my husband I had bought a house and we had a monthly payment. Behind all my travel stories around the world is a wonderful home, a finanical obligation, and decisions about how we can budget our lives so that I could follow my passion.
Iceland
The only photo I took in Iceland.
Whenever I have the chance, I try to double up on the locations that my trips will take me. A daylong layover can offer a lot in a second country – an overnight stay can feel like a whole other vacation if you plan it right. When my husband and I went to Barcelona for our 7th wedding anniversary, I booked our flights through WOW Air (RIP), which had a mandatory stop in Reykjavíkon both ends of the trip to Spain, the latter being a full 24 hours in Iceland.