Read Me First

Velkomin á Bloggið Mitt or "Welcome to my blog" in Icelandic (According to Google Translate) This is my fifth blog in a continuing series of vacation blogs from around the world. Every year Susie (my wife) and I pick a town, rent an apartment for a month (thank-you VRBO.com), no car and live like the …

Our Itinerary

Our Itinerary We are going on "Self Driving Tour" set-up by a company called Icelandic Farm Holidays. It is 13 days/12 Nights long and will we drive ~900 miles. I know what you are thinking... "Icelandic FARM Holidays". Like this is going to be Green Acres and I'm Oliver Wendell Douglas and Susie (my wife) …

Aug 5 – Going Home

Going Home & Some Final Thoughts WOW! these 2 weeks just flew by. So here are a few random thoughts in no particular order: Iceland is AWESOME!!!! I've been lucky enough to visit some pretty great places (Grand Canyon, the whole southwest, the fjords of Norway, the Alps, the Amalfi Coast, Japan...) but Iceland is …

Aug 4 – Reykjavik

Shopping Malls, Horse Play,  More Shopping, A Little Weirdness & The Best Pizza in IcelandSo we got up and headed to Reykjavik, realizing this was our last full day in Iceland :-(After a great breakfast, we headed out for a place Susie learned about from the owner of our house. Amazingly we found the place. …

Aug 3 – Borgarnes

Where Is The Time Going?, Rock & Troll? & Camping PodsTime??WOW! we only have a couple days left in Iceland :-(Speaking of time and thinking about the beautiful sunset last night, it is amazing how quickly the sunsets/sunrises are changing. Here is the official civilian sunrise/set times on the dates we arrived and when we …

Aug 2 – Brjanslaekur

The Spaniards, Our Car Gets  Bath, Hitchhikers Galore, Hay We Got Horses Too and The Italians Are Coming 🙂 The Spaniards We had a wonderful dinner and had some nice conversations with the staff. We found out they were all from Spain... the Barcelona area. I showed them some of my photo from Barcelona from last year... they …

Aug 1 – Baroastrond

Shaking it With Salt n Pepa, Iceland's Most Beautiful Waterfall, Damn Fjords, A Little WeirdnessAs we checked out this morning, I noticed several display cases around the lobby full of salt & pepper shakers. It seems the owners like to collect them and have 324 sets on display...They owners also told us we would be …