I have now seen the northern lights three times this year. Twice right here in Massachusetts. I still cannot fully believe that sentence is true.

I have wanted to go to Europe my entire life. Not a specific country at first, just Europe, the idea of it. And then Norway became the answer and suddenly the trip that had lived in my imagination for so long had a shape.

I had two nights in Tromsø to see the northern lights. That is not a lot of runway. Here is what happened anyway.