Hello again, Blogonauts! Today as the rains finally stopped, I wandered around Snæfellsbaer, wherein is located Snæfellsjökull National Park. The park is essentially Snæfellsjökull mountain, which is a 4,500-foot sleeping volcano, and the land to its north, west, and south...all the way to the coast. It isn't overly large (about 65 square miles), but the history and geology that it contains tells the story of Iceland in miniature: Fa...

Hello again, Blogonauts! Sunday…Day 1 of circumnavigating this quasi-arctic, often volcanic Icelandic isle. And it's June, during which the sky never gets dark…for the entire month. OK…calendar announcements are out of the way, so let the story continue. This morning I filled my trusty flivver with fuel and set Google maps to bring me first to Borgarnes, a modest village that fills an equally modest peninsula about 30 minutes north of Reyk...