Icelandic Glaciers, Hairless Cats, Pumpkin Spice Oreos; The World Is Full of...
We strapped on the crampons, swung the ice axes, ambled up Falljokull, the lava dirt outlet glacier of the mighty Vatnajökull glacier and looked deep into the valley of the mountain’s throat, its tiny...
View ArticleChewing Up Icelandic Scenery Is Tough If You’ve Got Bad Dentistry
The mighty Vatnajökull glacier is, in fact, SO mighty that it has a number of outlet glaciers that are themselves quite epic…miles across, in some cases. This white beast is the greatest glacier in...
View ArticleDaring To Toe The Thin Line Between Fishing and Just Standing On The Shore...
Djúpivogur, the tiny fishing village and childhood home of our Ring Road tour guide Biggi. For this shot, he drove the fan up onto an overlook hill and we stared out at a quintessential Icelandic...
View ArticleCastaway Waterfalls Are The Moonlight In The Gloomy Days of Life
One 3 kilometer hike in Northeast Iceland up,up,up. Check. Two major waterfalls: Hengifoss at the top, Litlanesfoss in the middle; you can see both in earlier blog posts here. And finally this...
View ArticleLove Is The Territory Of Kisses, Hisses, Steam, and Volcanoes
Námafjall geothermal area, Northeast Iceland, vents steaming out of every crease in the land, indigo and blue bubbling mud ponds and bathes. That pile of rocks in the forefront–there were many–was...
View ArticleSmoke for Smoke, Sir, My Extinguished Lava Cone Is Better Than Yours
The tour minibus drove up and down and around the northern fjords of Iceland, somewhere west of the fishing village of Akureyri, beyond lunar landscapes and into these pleasing patterned landscapes...
View ArticleTraveling Is Not Just A Tour, It’s a Rabbit Tail
Goðafoss, waterfall of the Gods. Typically don’t include tourists in my shots but there was no shaking these dudes they stood in front of everyone taking pics, oblivious, but hey, it’s their trip,...
View ArticleSome Turf Houses Have Stories Too True To Tell
The north of Iceland is a moody, stormy show of Mother Nature’s irritable side. We clambered out of the tour mini-bus greeted with a sheet of rain that smashed our faces, sprinted past the church and...
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Love Is A Crater, A Hole Where I Got Swallowed Up And Then Other Stuff Happened
In the west of Iceland, a very Nordically named area of Bifrost-hmmm, sounds familiar–we mixed band of motley travelers climbed a winding set of wooden stairs until we hit the rim of Grábrók crater,...
View ArticleBlue Oblivion Is Tonic For The Monkey Who Led You To This Godforsaken River
Hraunfossar is roughly translated to Icelandic as the children’s waterfall, or more accurately a series of little waterfalls that offer numerous plateaus and places for those Viking kids to play back...
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