Category Archives: Iceland

We can hear them from our VRBO window – from dawn to dusk the kids of Isafjodur are jumping and jumping and screaming and screaming. Right next to city hall they have installed a big inflated bladder. It looks pretty fun and it’s always occupied. As I walked around town and noticed the trappings ofContinue reading “Iceland – the jumping bladders”

While out exploring I found a tunnel that punched through a mountain the size of the Rocky Mountain range. I’m always a sucker for a tunnel so I went in. 20 min later I wished I hadn’t. These Icelanders don’t do tunnel casually.

We walked through town looking for ‘an old viking lodge’ which contained a restaurant named Tjöruhúsið. Neither of us knew what a viking lodge looked like, nor would ever be able to read whatever word our VRBO host had said to us as we launched out the door- but we were confident that our noses wouldContinue reading “Iceland – Eating at Tjöruhúsið”

While there was a waterfall every 100 yards, I really never got tired of seeing them…and pointing every one of them out to Kaety. I did restrain myself a bit and only stopped to photograph the ones that didn’t involve a death defying hike, or take us off our course too far. During a stopContinue reading “Iceland- Intertidal fjords”

The conference Kaety was attending in Iceland had some awkward travel constraints around it. We pushed and pulled and finally figured out something that worked and get us there on time. That ‘figuring out’ ended up sounding like this, “The flight to Reykjavík leaves Portland at 3 pm and is only a 7 hour flight…andContinue reading “Iceland – Driving to the Westjords”

20 years ago when someone said something about going to Iceland you’d assume they were military personnel…and had done something wrong. 10 years ago people who went to Iceland were world travelers who had run out of the normal stuff to do and were ‘adventure touring’. They also tended to be people who owned moreContinue reading “Iceland – On our way”