(Disclaimer: This was Jess' favorite day, FULL of fun. This is the Sparknotes version, I assure you. Buckle up.) tl;dr Jess had a really, really good day. Poor Julie. She is a trooper. Jessica's choice to resign from her job the day before leaving on an international trip, getting jetlagged, and missing some meals has…

FALSE. Jessica claimed it would be a 20-ish hour journey to the evening hotel. Jessica lied. I'm finally parked horizontally for the first time in 30 hours. My knees still like extending fully, a phenomenon not available on modern transportation. After landing in Oslo at 6:00 am, my brain finally caught up to my body,…

It's sometime between midnight and 6:00 am, and we are suspended somewhere over the British Isles. Pink highlights are bouncing off the cloud cover from our 38,000 foot vantage point, so I think I'll lean into the 6:00 am clock - even though my watch says 11:30 pm and my body is still deep in…