3 September: Iceland, the name and the mental imagery that goes with it, evokes visions of icesheets and glaciers and, to a lesser extent, the streams and rivers fed by their meltwater (which in N. America, where I’ve seen it, is always turquoise colored but here is...
1 September – I left Gullfoss this morning and for the first 3-4 hours passed through primarily agricultural country: hay fields and pastures, sheep and horses, no cows to be seen. Then after going east for a while on Hwy. 1 the scenery changed—I entered what’s...