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 ...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Review: The Way of Kings

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I picked up The Way of Kings at a huge discount from Amazon in preparation for a transatlantic flight. I usually try to avoid buying the fi...
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...
Saturday, August 27, 2016

BVI Trip moved to April 2017

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The previous trip solicitation resulted in a trip and boat reservation, but it's been moved to the first week of April next year. There...
Friday, August 26, 2016

Iceland 2016: Siglufordur Penninsula

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We were blessed by another sunny day for our day in Akureyri. That meant that we should spend time hiking, and forget about museums and othe...
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...