I [Shamrock] New York City (Yes, I did buy that shirt)

(I stopped through New York City on the way back from Iceland for a five day introduction to the city. This is the Brooklyn Bridge and lower Manhattan, as seen from the Manhattan Bridge.) (At the ferry dock under Brooklyn Bridge, trying to reassimilate with...

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Last Day in Iceland

(The long and winding road.) (A former volcanic caldera. Not so impressive anymore.) (Back at Hraunfossar where the stream of waterfalls is created by the cracks beneath the surface of the lava rocks, one of our last stops. Some of those falls come from our tears...

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Snæfellsnes and the West Fjords

(North of Reykjavík, we followed the coast in and out of the Western fjords, covered in grass, snow-capped peaks and waterfalls...just like the rest of Iceland.) (More flowers on the way to Glymur, the highest waterfall in Iceland. The poorly marked trail confused...

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Heading Back West

(Dwarfed by the massive, 200 ft Skogáfoss. Or to be more politically correct: "Little-peopled by Skogáfoss.") (We stayed in a hostel just around the corner from this picture with a view of this from the back side of the building.) (Though sometimes frequented...

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Ice Climbing at Svínafellsjökull

(Here's Mike on his first climb up one of the many walls of the massive glacier.) (The view from the ice is spectacular, once you get past the first few hundred feet which is ice covered in dirt and mud that slides down from the surrounding mountains.) (Now a...

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Beautiful Morning at Jökulsarlón

(a) Mike got so excited that he ran towards the icebergs, tripped on the rocks and got a concussion or (b) He was trying to get an artistic picture from water level. (We had a clear, sunny day for my second visit to the glacial lagoon, completely different than...

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The Amazing Canyon - Fjarðrárgljúfur

(This is a field of lava rocks, covered in thick green moss. We probably weren't supposed to walk on it but too late for that.) (Amazing how lava rocks covered in moss can look like a human brain, if also covered in green moss.) (At the start of the canyon, simply...

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