Since the local shops in Iceland don't usually open until 10 in the morning, we let ourselves sleep in a little bit so we could time the peak of our morning hunger with the opening of our local supermarket and café. The gas station situation in Iceland is quite different

In the morning we sampled not one, but two coffee shops in Akureyri. It's the kind of city I wouldn't mind living in, if I decided to move northward. We also got in some souvenir shopping and sent a bunch of postcards to friends and other people who helped make

Upon waking up, we found that our apartment actually had a lovely view of the fjord, invisible in the dark of night. After a quick breakfast we got on the road and continued our journey through the Westfjords. The scenery was absolutely stunning and we took advantage of a few

I've been pretty exhausted and got behind on blog posts, but here's the first in a series of updates about what we've been up to these days. We got on the road after a long sleep in Reykjavík. Our first Icelandic breakfast was at our hotel, a really lovely buffet.

This trip has been a long time coming. The last time I was on a plane, I, and a whole lot of other American ex-pats, were essentially evacuating from Japan in the midst of COVID. Before the pandemic, I was a world traveler. For the past few years, however, I