Oh boy, traveling is still not the easiest thing on the body. Tip for you, wear slip ons and not your new hiking boots. I think I had to pull them off 4 times before I got here. Anyway, major delays in Buffalo and then again at JFK. Long story short I got to Iceland [...]
My first holiday in years and it can’t come soon enough. Finally I’ll be living my dream of being there. I can almost taste it now and can hear the wind howling. So come back for what I hope will be some daily blogging. If I can find my GPS receiver I’ll take that too [...]
Well I’m still pining for the fjords. This coming Thursday the 13th I’ll be jetting over to soak my weary bones in some geothermal waters. I need the fresh air and drinkable water. Fresh fish and wind blown glaciers. More sheep than people. Organic hot dogs. And thanks to my trixbox PBX back home and [...]
It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of hot water in Icelandic society. The country is effectively run by hot and cold water. Hot being that lovely steamy water that is drilled out of the ground like the rest of us drill for oil. They run power plants on this stuff, pipe it around [...]