Trip in November 2015 to visit my friend Jari in Finland. I booked this trip on miles with Delta almost a year out, 60,000 skymiles. The flights were Delta to Atlanta and then KLM from Atlanta to Amsterdam to Helsinki.
Jetlag got me really bad on this trip. We headed to Lapland after a few days to do some skiing and getting away. Unfortunately I tore my ACL and meniscus on my first trip down the hill and was in immense pain. They had to bring me down the mountain on a snowmobile.
Needless to say, the rest of the vacation was a bit low key. We drove around Helsinki but walking was out of the question for me.
Welcome to Helsinki
Helsinki Airport
They have slot machines in convenience stores
Watching Jari's Son play Hockey
It was cold in Finland
Sweden/Finland Border
Sweden
Suomi- Finland
Finland Pizza
Esa's apartment
Aurora Igloos
Me and the Aurora Igloo
Inside the igloos
Reindeers
Nili PoroMenu
Pano of where I was injured
Helsinki Seaport
Helsinki
Me and a Russian MiG-21 Fishbed
Hartwall Areena
Helsinki Jokerit
Hartwall Arena in Helsinki
Hockey game in Finland
Ice girls
KHL HockeyKHL Hockey Game in Helsinki, Finland. Jokerit vs Ak Bars Kazan
Ben Holcomb is a Storm Chaser that lives in Oklahoma. He has observed over 200 tornadoes since 2007 and has appeared on most news networks. Ben loves to travel and has been to all 50 states and 19 countries.