This is part of the “Places That Changed Us” series, a compilation of 20 trips that have had a lasting impact on the Matador Network team. To see the other 19 places, click here.
My now-wife and I almost couldn’t believe it when we saw a budget airline had January flights from Atlanta to Oslo for a couple hundred dollars in 2015. I was about to start my last semester of college at Auburn university in Alabama and had a dwindling savings account from working at U-Haul. She was in her gap year before starting dental school at Columbia University in New York City. It’s safe to say our budget didn’t exactly match our desire for our first transatlantic trip just the two of us. Norway’s cheap off-season flights made it a bit more feasible — at least it did when taking into consideration our blissful ignorance of how expensive day-to-day necessities are in the country.