Hello again, Blogonauts! Friday found me once again on the road, with a couple of wonderful stops along the way. I first set my sights on Husavik, a prosperous-looking fishing village that also is well known for whale-watching excursions out into the Skjalfandi Bay. (We will, for the moment, ignore the Will Ferrell movie partially about the village.) Without the time to head out seaward in search of blow holes and flukes, I instead visited the informative Husav...

Hello again, Blogonauts! Happy Iceland Day! June 17 is Iceland's national day, chosen because it commemorates both the establishment of the Icelandic Republic in 1944 and the birthday of Jón Sigurðsson, who headed the Icelandic independence movement in the 19th century. My plan was to explore Akureyri, a town that, with a population around 18,000, is Iceland's second largest city. (In other words, it has several thousand fewer people than Keene. But ...

Hello again, Blogonauts! Wednesday was devoted to visiting Grimsey Island, which can be reached via a 42-mile ferry ride north of the fjord-side town of Dalvik. Why, you may ask, venture 42 miles north of Dalvik? Two primary reasons: First, Grimsey is crossed by the Arctic Circle and so it gave me a chance to walk over that semi-geographical boundary. Second, puffins…Atlantic Puffins. In no way do I qualify as an avid birder, but colorful birds can make...

Hello again, Blogonauts! Today was devoted to driving north through some fabulous scenery. But take my word for it, such majesty doesn't photograph well. Even when the snow-dotted mountains against a crystal-blue sky gives you goosebumps, any attempt to capture such awesomeness with a camera fails miserably. Maybe it's my limited skill. Maybe my mediocre equipment. Maybe my expectations are simply too high. No matter the reason, there were no worth-sharing sam...

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...