
Today is our last full day in Reykjavík and a day to visit anything we missed earlier in the week before moving on to the rest of Iceland. In keeping with the pattern of our trip to date, it’s raining again today, but colder with a high temperature under 50°F. I snuck out to get…

Today was the linchpin, the keystone to our trip, the one thing that most tourists to Iceland try to incorporate into their itinerary, an exploration of the Golden Circle! The Circle includes a few tourist destinations, the primary ones of which are Þingvellir National Park, Gullfoss waterfall, and the Geysir geothermal area. Golden Circle is…

Those who know Nancy and me know that we are both planners by nature. As a result, no one should be surprised that I had a spreadsheet prepared before the trip that showed what we planned to do each day. Looking back at that spreadsheet now, I can see we completed everything we had planned…