Iceland Day 10 – Hot Springs At Last
For my last day, I am inspired by the campers at next to me who tell me that the highlight of their vacation was the hot springs at Reykjadalur. There is only one path...
Monthly Archive: January 2020
Iceland Day 9 – Epics
Today is a travel day, I have little planned for my journey back to Reykjavik. I pick up hitchhiker on the ring road. A perky young graduate student of environmental science, she tells me...
Iceland Day 8 – Arctic Circle
I take the morning ferry to Grimsey Island off the north coast , the only place where the Arctic Circle intersects Iceland. The Circle is marked by a 17,600-pound concrete sphere “Orbis et Globus”,...
Iceland Day 7 – Myvatn Baths
On the four hour drive to Myvatn over the mountain pass and blinding fog, I pick up some more tourist spots. As I cover the gravelly desert road to Dettifoss waterfall, a 4×4 decides...
Iceland Day 6 – Elves
I discovered that sheep in Iceland do not speak English. No matter how much you scream ‘mint sauce’ at them while barreling down the ring road at 60 mph, they refuse to get out...