snæfellsnes. the re-realization that i am not in ohio

dearest all,
it has been some time since i've last had anything interesting to share with you. the last few weeks have been chiefly dedicated to a single slow moving project, and that doesn't lend itself to very good stories of adventure. [unless of course, you like very boring adventures.]

a cairn silhouetted against a curious sky.

but, i just got back from a trip out into the weirdness of iceland, a trip that i was not expecting, but am hugely glad to have been a part of. we travelled to snæfellsnes, a fancy peninsula on the west coast of iceland. read on for more photos, and maybe a story or two.



for most of the trip i was sitting in the back seat of the car, happily shooting away- the plan was that i drive when the sun goes down. [but the sun has been going down around 9:00pm ish, and it isn't really dark until 10, so that lent me a lot of time to take pictures, which was great.

just as a warning, all of the landscape here, with its many varieties,
 is only a partial documentation of out trip out to the peninsula.
 and though it may appear to be a few different seasons,
these are all from a period of a few hours. 

after a while, mountains as cool as this seem pretty normal.

the landscape here is entrancing.
this might be a symptom of ohioanism, though

we found a small hill with some tiny houses on it, along with
a pretty decent sized population of these little gnomy fellers.

 a bit of mossy lava fun in the foreground. background: mtns; bfd.

i think it would be a nice place to live. you are allowed to disagree.

at one point, it became quite windy and was snowing, the weather behaving in quite a violent way. visibility was quite low- only able to see one set of posts ahead. [there are posts on either side of the road with reflective heads, i'm assuming for these snowy cases when the actual location of the road may not be as evident as one might hope.] while inching along, hoping not to be blown off of the road,  we came across a tractor trailer that had run into a little car, crushing its side in. there were no fatalities, which is good, but there were plenty of people who had a bad case of the shivers. always and adventure.

it isn't an adventure without a blizzard or two.

a big old town! 

i'm sorry, these next few are pretty similar, but the cloudplay
was just too cool.

not so bad for a shot out the window of a moving car on an unpaved road, eh?

saw a whole lot of these cairns along the way.

i quite like them. 

a handsome but perhaps lonely church

 eventually we made it to stykkisholmur, a biggish little town, where we stayed the night. the only other people staying at the guest house were some australians who stunk the whole place up with some nasty nasty sausages. death flavoured sausage or something. dinner: peanut butter on some shattered sesame crackers as a dessert to a dry sammich from the gas station. [everything else in town was closed when we arrived. [don't worry, i'll eat better on the next day.]

and the next day, we went to some lava fields

that is all for now. i'll be updating with the lava field adventures soon, along with more cairns, perhaps? or maybe a video? who knows, but i'll try to keep it interesting.

with warmest regards,

eric