Meg and I embark upon our 10 day trip to Iceland - just the two of us.
We picked up our campervan on Sunday morning after traveling all Saturday night - and were off to travel the ring road.
Our first stop was Rauðhólar, a pile of otherworldly rocks right outside Reykjavik - a great spot to stretch our legs.
15 minutes more down the road and we stopped at the Hveradalir Geothermal Area, a boardwalk that passed several hot pots and bubbling mud pools. The mist came up while we were there (or the clouds descended on us?).
Fifteen more minute got us to our first Bonus store - the low cost grocery chain we needed to feed us in this incredibly expensive country. We got groceries, bread at a bakery and then the sleepless night from the plane caught up with us. We pulled the curtains in the campervan, stretched out on the benches and both slept for an hour or so.
Refreshed, we continued on. Eighteen minutes later, we saw a parking lot with lots of cars and stopped to see if it was something interesting. It was! Kerid crater is a scenic lake inside an old (well, only around 4,000 BC) volcanic crater. There's a path around the rim and another one down to the lake. See the map via Pokemon? Not bad.
Our next stop took a further 30 minutes of drive - Geysir. This is one of the three major sites of the Golden Triangle. There's a geysir that erupts regularly as well as a number of smaller ones that are less regular. We hurried through, hoping to get to our campground nearby.
Unfortunately, it was closed for the season.
So we continued on to see Gulfoss, another of the big sights. We hopped out of the van to pop over to see it, not realizing that it was a bit of a hike, but when we arrived - wow. It's a HUGE falls, very gorgeous.
Finally, we found a campground. It was run by the nearby bar, and we were parked in a gravel parking lot, but look at that view out the back windows! We pulled the curtains against the light, snuggled into our sleeping bags, and zonked out.
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