Last adventure and final thoughts

Well, I'm sitting in my hotel room with my bags packed. I'm only wearing a sweater, my jacket is packed away. Normally I'd never go out so lighlty dressed, but I'm off to the airport and its part of my eagerness to get back to the heat that is prompting me into temporary denial about the outside temperature.
The photos here are of downtown Reyjkavik, Iceland's largest city, home to about 120,000 people. It, like every other place in Iceland, is situated amongst amazing physical beauty. It is on the water with views of a foreboding deep blue ocean. At its back are climbing mountains and even a few glaciers. You can see these views thru cross streets even as you stroll the downtown.
The other photos here are from a drive I did from Akuryeri, in the northern and eastern side of the country back to Reykavik.
More stunning fields, mountains, ocean and glaciers. thank you iceland.
I am grateful for the beauty here, the same way I am grateful for beauty everywhere. Here there is just so much of it. I am grateful for the friends I made here, Glen, Harry, Erla, Lynn, Erik and Gustav, I hope to see you as we trudge the road to happy destiny.

oh yeah...i'm a swinger

it's amazing what you can do when you have a few minutes free time in iceland between business meetings

the blue lagoon and a year in a day

I got to go to some geothermal hot springs called the Blue lagoon. It is a HOT slufur pool that shines blue and white in the middle of a lava rock valley. when i arrived it was a sunny spring day and within minutes the weather changed dramatically. it started raining, then hailing, then snowing and then REALLY snowing. I sat in the hot waters while getting snowed on. I felt like one of those magestic monkeys you see on the nature channel covered in snow with icicles on his fur and eyebrows. They call iceland the land of fire and ice because of all the geothermal and volcanic activity. I really felt it at that moment. The experienceIt was like being on the moon because you'd look out over this surface that was sharp, jagged volcanic black rocks while you were floating in a hot milky pool. The weather is crazy here, one moment nice (15 degrees) the next it can be 2 degrees and snowing. If it weren't so beautiful, I'd be really upset. everyone here tells me i'm lucky that I get to experience all of icelandic weather in one day.

now i know iceland

What the hell? I'm in iceland. I'm in one of those places I pretty much assumed i'd never go, like mauritius. its not that I have anything against iceland or icelandic folks, and i guess i always assumed there are probably nice things there, but really! who actually goes to iceland?
apparently I do. as an ice salesmen from israel. guy from the desert selling ice-machines in iceland. it sounds like a bad script, the kind of thing you wouldn't believe unless it were true.
so, i'm staying in iceland touring the country's fishing towns. going on board fishing vessels, holding my breath thru stinky fish processing plants and sitting in lots of meetings with people that have names i can't pronounce like harladur, and thordvalsson. at least i got to meet a guy named thor.
I also have time for touristy stuff and iceland abounds with physical beauty. they call iceland a land of fire and ice. the ice part is obvious, and the fire part comes from the fact that iceland is basically an island of volcanos. the entire island is covered with volcanos, some recently active, and lots of lava flow. that means that some places are virtually un crossable mile after square mile of really jagged rock that no tank or 4wd could come close to traversing.