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(Dana) The Hveragerdi Valley was almost the Lord of the Rings set. Soaring verdant, volcanic slopes; craggy outcroppings; rushing river down the valley. If only the weather didn’t change every 30 minutes, it would have gotten the nod for the films. Fortunately, misting rain didn’t bother the 6 Explorers as we hiked 6 km round-trip. […]

Three of my earliest childhood memories took place in Iceland in 1969, when our parents took three of the four boys (Christopher was just one) on a sub-arctic adventure. All three memories revolve around personal embarrassment in and around water: swimming in the hotel pool in my tighty-whities cuz my Mom forgot to pack my […]

Water flowing in and out like breathing, Silent as night except for the excited chatter of tourists waiting The water flows up like an orb Then suddenly like punching through a piece of paper The water explodes in a pretty sight like water fireworks The water rushes back in and SILENCE. Reis White

We haven’t had “school”, we haven’t worked out, we can’t get going until 10AM because the kids giggle in their beds ‘til midnight because the sun is still up. We have laughed and debated, negotiated, arbitrated and laughed some more. We have done more in 3 days than most families do in a whole vacation […]

(Alexandra) On July 1st (our first day), we went out on a walk to the geo-thermal pools. It was raining and I was freezing! As we were walking I asked my parents: “Is this going to be warm? Because I DON’T want to have spent all day walking in the rain to get to a […]

(Emma) Today, during our first dinner of our trip I had something that had a well….. different taste. It was so different that you might even be able to consider it a FUNKY FOOD! We were at SAE GREIFINN. It was a sea food restaurant; and so we ordered sea food. One was minke whale! […]

(Reis) We left for the trip today. WOW! We did an overnight flight out of Logan Airport to Reykjavik. 9:40 P.M to 2:30 A.M with pillows and blankets. We’re in Iceland now and having a nice peaceful day. And I look forward to the rest of this wonderful, once in a lifetime trip.