Showing posts with label iceland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iceland. Show all posts
Monday, September 05, 2016

Thoughts on Iceland

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I'm at the point of my life where travel to a new location frequently has me thinking, "Why am I here? What does this offer t...
Friday, September 02, 2016

Iceland 2016: Reykjavik

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We took a quick walk in the morning, but didn't get very far. Then went downtown to visit a couple of museums and see the lake in the ...
Thursday, September 01, 2016

Iceland 2016: Borgarnes

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It was clearly going to be a rainy day today, so we decided on two museums. The first was a shark museum in Bjarnarhofn. This was actually q...
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Iceland 2016: Snaefellsnes National Park

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We started the day intending to visit Sanefellsnes National Park, but immediately upon leaving town saw a beautiful waterfall and stopped ...
Monday, August 29, 2016

Iceland 2016: Vidgelmir Cave and Grundarfjordur

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The day threatened rain. My original plan was to head directly to Grundarfjordur, but on looking at the map (and getting lost), we decide...
Thursday, August 25, 2016

Iceland 2016: Dettifoss & Myvatn Nature Baths

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The day started off gloomy, so we weren't too sad to be leaving Eglistadir to head to Akureyri. On the way would be the famous Dettifo...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Iceland 2016: Seyðisfjörður

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The day began with another dirt traversal on our mini van, which was remarkably challenging, since I had to keep shifting gears to keep th...
Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Iceland 2016: Vatnajokull National Park and Jökulsárlón

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Talk to anyone in America about a trip to Iceland, and the assumption nearly everyone makes is that Iceland's a small country and it wou...
Monday, August 22, 2016

Iceland 2016: Westman Islands, Puffins

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One unfortunate side effect of not planning the entire trip out was the more-or-less botched trip to the Westman Islands. We made it to th...
Saturday, August 20, 2016

Iceland 2016: Trip Index Page

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This is the trip index page for our trip in Iceland in 2016. We drove around the island on the ring road, and visited various sights. In t...
Friday, August 19, 2016

Iceland 2016: Seljalandfoss & Skogafoss

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Today was our first day down the ring road around Iceland. We loaded up the mini van, and drove down first towards Stokkseyri for the Ic...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

Iceland 2016: Hiking Mt. Esja

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We woke up to overcast skies, but it wasn't forecast to rain, so I thought we'd risk a hike to Mt. Esja, introduced in the guideb...