This journal entry is actually being written on June 1, but I didn’t want to leave May empty.
The great Iceland adventure, and my first big vacation in two years, starts in a week. The schedule looks like the following:
- Five days in Boston. Lobster will be eaten.
- Slightly more than two weeks in Iceland with Rod, Marlene and the Skipper.
- Slightly less than two weeks in Iceland on my own. This is the part of the trip where it’s most likely I’ll do something stupid.
- One-night stopover in Boston. After four weeks of eating pickled herring there will almost certainly be lobster on the menu.
- Back to LA.
For those wondering “Why Iceland?”, here’s a pretty picture. It’s not of Iceland, so it doesn’t really answer the question, but it’s pretty:
This is pretty. It’s Denali (Mt. McKinley) reflected from the creatively-named Reflection Pond.
well it *could* be Iceland. except the tall trees.
I’m jealous. Iceland was cool. Enjoy the light!
actually the trees in this picture are just willow bushes – except for the low elevation parts of the park, what i saw of denali is pretty much treeless. let me know if you have exciting and thought-provoking suggestions of things to do while in iceland.
avoid the putrified shark.
we went here: http://www.skogasafn.is It was so perfect I’m still not sure it was real. and there was an awesome waterfall. Which they sort of regard like we might regard trees. By which I mean not a mention, but they’re nice aren’t they?