Iceland day 4 - Wow folks, just wow. I knew that today was going to be a good one, but man...Jokulsarlon Glacier Lagoon, you just blew my mind. Unreal. And the fact that we were the only ones there at 7am (even if I had to literally drag everyone out of bed) certainly didn't hurt. It was so inconceivably quiet. You could actually hear the ice calving from the glacier. We sat and stared at the huge chunks of blue, blue ice floating calmly past. The chunks h...

Iceland day 3 - I woke up and departed the hotel, on my own, at the holy jesus crack of dawn to head back to Gullfoss (ie. big waterfall). My eagerness paid off and there were only two other visitors when I arrived (as opposed to the several hundred the day before). The sun finally, gloriously came out for a brief moment and I was treated to a shimmering rainbow over the falls. The only agenda for today was to drive from our hotel near Gullfoss waterfall to ou...