I’s on the World: Air Iceland

Oh, the places we go … University of Illinois alumni are globetrotters who travel near and far, but never forget their Alma Mater!

Helen Laka Boen stantds on a snowy mountainside next to a helicopter Helen Laka Boen takes to the skies during her trip to Iceland. (Image courtesy of Helen Laka Boen)
Oh, the places we go … University of Illinois alumni are globetrotters who travel near and far, but never forget their Alma Mater!

As the pandemic eased, Helen Laka Boen, ’77 BUS, set her sights on Iceland. “I went with a Women Over 60 Travel Group,” she says. “Our reason for choosing Iceland was to get pictures of the Northern Lights, but we ended up experiencing so much more!” That “more” included stops in Reykjavík and Akureyri.

Boen’s wanderlust began at Illinois. “For graduation, 40 of us rewarded ourselves with a six-week trip to 13 countries,” she says. When her son, Andrew Boen, ’14 ENG, and daughter-in-law gifted her with a Storyworthy book project, Helen made sure to include that 1977 celebration as an important chapter in her life story.

For more photos of alumni around the world, check out our Flickr album. Send pictures of yourself clad in orange and blue to IllinoisAlumni@uillinois.edu. You also can post to www.Facebook.com/IllinoisAlumni and twitter.com/uiaa using hashtag #IlliniWorldwide.

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