My Own Private Iceland #3

This is the third in a series of posts imagining what my scheduled trip to Iceland would have been like…



Today is the day I go on a tour of the countryside with fellow attendees of the Writers Retreat. I’ve seen most of this before, but it is always fun to exchange impressions, especially with first-timers. Even the junky boats are somehow “Icelandic” in character.

Roads in the U.S. tend to be lines, especially in the Midwest and West, roads in Iceland tend toward being circles: the Ring road, Snæfellsness, The Golden Circle, Hvalfjörður (tunnel video below.)

Ísland island geography. No matter how far you go, there you are. Of course the biggest ring is the earth itself: no exit, despite what the wall-builders would have you believe.