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Flights, a passport and friendship: Simon Kim's Iceland reunion

His older travel film follows six childhood friends turning scattered lives into a shared adventure.

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Simon Kim Story of November 7, 2026Trari Newsroom

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0:38Simon revisits Project West, the friends' earlier van trip across the United States.
3:27Video calls turn the reunion idea into flight planning and efforts to persuade hesitant friends.
5:14A passport scramble brings Chad into the trip just a week before departure.
12:05The friends hike to Reykjadalur and soak in its warm thermal river.
13:17Simon gives an "MTV Cribs"-style tour of the group's tents and van.

Getting everyone to Iceland takes video calls, budget-flight persuasion and a passport that nearly leaves Chad behind. Before Simon Kim's "a film about friendship" reaches the hot springs, it makes room for the less picturesque work of getting old friends together.

Simon posted nothing new this week, but that reunion film carries the strongest daily momentum among his featured older uploads. He describes spending much of a year assembling it, calling it a project made first for the friends who shared his school years. Their earlier van journey across America, "Project West," becomes the starting point for "Project Europe."

The planning eventually gives way to Reykjavík, a warm river at Reykjadalur and an "MTV Cribs"-style inspection of their camping arrangements. Chad's confidence in his tent supplies a particularly practical expression of friendship: apparently, even a reunion needs a little campsite one-upmanship.

Across the catalog, the channel collected roughly 37,000 views this week, while subscribers held steady at 411,000. Daily viewing is a little below its usual pace. It was the smallest viewing week among the nearby vlog channels, with Kenzie Bree and Amber Alexander drawing much larger audiences.

There are other sides of Simon to revisit, too: "5 years as a full time artist." and his solo Outer Mountain Loop hike in Big Bend both continue adding views. The contrast is fitting: one journey asks what it takes to go alone; the Iceland film shows how much arranging it takes not to.

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