Episode Details

🎙️ Episode 42 – Chasing the Midnight Sun
Guests: Poppy, GT, and Robert
Host: Mike Ruhl
Length: ~90 minutes
Recorded in: Reykjavik, Iceland & Tromsø, Norway

In this jam-packed kickoff to the "Norway Adventure" trilogy, Mike, his son Robert, Poppy, and GT set off on a multi-generational journey across Iceland and Norway in pursuit of puffins, pastries, and (eventually) halibut.

🛫 TRIP ORIGINS:

GT and Mike's group fly from Santa Fe to Denver, then direct to Reykjavik

Poppy flies from Pennsylvania to Reykjavik via BWI

The crew reunites, loads into a diesel Toyota Land Cruiser, and starts their Icelandic road trip

🏔️ ICELAND HIGHLIGHTS:

Whale Museum in Reykjavik

The Hallgrímskirkja church and top-tier seafood dinners

Waterfalls you can walk behind

Puffin spotting on the Westman Islands

Black Sand Beach and tern attacks (ask Poppy)

Secret Lagoon hot springs (shhh!)

Geysir and tectonic plate hikes

Several bakeries – one was life-changing

🍲 ROBERT’S RANKINGS:
Robert (age 6) offers a full list of favorites and not-so-favorites, including:

🥇 Secret Lagoon

🥈 Second bakery

🥉 Whale museum and mussels dinner

🥄 Least favorite: not being allowed to ride a scooter 😆

🔥 SPECIAL ICELANDIC MOMENT:
On the drive to the airport, the crew unexpectedly witnesses a volcano eruption near the Blue Lagoon — a surreal farewell from Iceland.