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Longyearbyen, Svalbard

I’m at the library in Longyearbyen, Svalbard which sits at 78° North. It is currently -2C but feels like -9C, nothing compared to yesterday’s weather, when it was -11C but felt like -21C with the wind, which was 51 km/h. Kind of like Rexburg, haha. Actually, the day I proposed to Laleinia was colder than this although it wasn’t windy, with a low that day of -25C and a proposal time reading of around -11C! It is completely dark and there has been cloud cover for pretty much all of the trip. I was hoping to see the northern lights, and was told right when I arrived at the hostel that they were on display a few hours before I got there! Last night one of the locals told me that although this is a good place to see them, we are almost too far north. He said Tromso was better. Ah well. I’ve wanted to come here for a long time and it is great to finally be here. It is crazy, I feel like I’m at the end of the earth, which in some ways is true, this is the northernmost set...