The Gilded Gosling

10/08/2026

It’s National Pierogi Day! The best Pierogis are in Krakow, but we do our humble best in Ohio 💪 🧑‍🍳

09/21/2026

Our Bird of the Week is the Red Tailed Hawk! Captured here in the Gorge Metro Park in Cuyahoga Falls.
Raptors of all kinds are in the height of their fall migration, and due to the leaves changing color and beginning to fall, are easier to see as they move around. Keep your eyes open for these large birds of prey!

09/15/2026

Tokyo is a travel guide that has been a long time coming. There are still dozens of things I’d like to put in, but at some point it has to be posted.

The largest city in the world has everything, unsurprisingly. It’s clean, easy to navigate, and there’s so much to do you’ll never do it all in a lifetime.

A travel guide for Tokyo Japan. No nonsense, no affiliations, just real advice from real people.

08/18/2026

In honor of our anniversary, here’s one of our favorite places, and Heathers first summit, Carrauntoohil. Ireland is more than Guinness and leprechauns.

A guide to hiking and climbing the tallest point in Ireland, Carrauntoohil.

08/12/2026

All these fine fellows we found near Rauðanes, nearly as far north in Iceland as you can go 🇮🇸

08/12/2026

I will never tire of puffins. Looking at them, photographing them, posting about them.

Atlantic Puffin Though they live alone for most of their lives, on and in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, the Atlantic Puffin swims and flies its way to Iceland each year to make little pufflings. Alone among birds, these puffins are monogamous to the point of meeting their mate every year at the....

08/02/2026

We’re named after geese for several reasons, but one of the foremost is that they are EVERYWHERE. These guys get around. The Graylag Goose is far from an exception. You might not expect to see a farmyard looking chunk like this in the Land of Fire and Ice, but goose don’t care what you think.

Atlantic Puffin Though they live alone for most of their lives, on and in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, the Atlantic Puffin swims and flies its way to Iceland each year to make little pufflings. Alone among birds, these puffins are monogamous to the point of meeting their mate every year at the....

07/25/2026

Exploring Cleveland and Mentor yesterday for my birthday, and we stopped by Tommy Boys for some GREAT pizza.

07/21/2026

Atlantic Puffins are perhaps the most adorable birds in the world, and some of the hardest working. They live their life at sea, alone, and come together every year to meet the same mate, at the same burrow to raise a new generation of pufflings. We saw so many of these beautiful birds in Iceland, and we are very grateful for the opportunity to travel as we do.
As always, all pictures are by us, never AI, always original.
Check out our website for more birds of Iceland 🇮🇸