Photo Credit: Carol Madigan    If I were back to the mindset of letting Iceland come to us, rather than vice versa, today was going to be a perfect day for it. Black beaches, calving icebergs and thick fingers of glaciers from Iceland’s great ice cap reaching out ominously to the very edge of the […]

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Photo Credit: Carol Madigan    The “plan” (as rare as that term was to be employed on this trip) was for a short hitch over coastal mountains to the little fishing village of Seyðisfjörður. We’d walk around a bit, and if the campground looked good, and there was a decent cafe, we’d stay the night. […]

   By our fourth day in the camper, Carol and I had developed a transition routine from driving to camping out that mimicked the precision of synchronized swimming. Within minutes of pulling into the campground, I would have Happy Hour fully underway, complete with a red and a white opened and paired with a charcuterie […]

Photo Credit: Carol Madigan    We thought our first sightseeing site of the day would be the famous sod church, known as Víðimýrarkirkja. But when we turned right out of our campsite and back onto the Ring Road, we immediately discovered we’d spent the night hard by a stunning gorge and island we had no […]

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No stop signs Speed limit Nobody’s gonna slow me down                                   –AC/DC    The thing about a highway to Hell is that you normally don’t know you’re on it until it’s too late.    Our second day on the Ring Road dawned with clear skies and great confidence. I was feeling more comfortable behind the […]

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“Fellowship of the Ring Road”    The reasoning behind Carol’s and my decision to rent a camper van was a Plan B idea for having a place to sleep, in the event we arrived in a remote village lacking available hotel accommodations. We’d both camped in our distant pasts, but recent impulses to rent a […]

Photos by Carol Madigan    The thing I like most about my irrational fears is that they’re so unhinged from reality that I can take solace that they will never come to be.    And so it was on the third full day of our Iceland adventure that I found that my credit card was […]