You Can't Get There From Here...Well, not easily anyway

After the Christmas House, we drove back to town, drove around a little tiny bit, then got some Icelandic hotdogs (this time I tried one) and then it was off to the airport to go to Grimsey Island.  Grimsey Island is in the Arctic Circle AND is home to puffins so my friend was really excited to go as she wanted to see puffins and set foot in the arctic circle.  Unfortunately, Mother Nature (and the airlines) had other plans.  As they say, the best laid plans...I'll spare you all the details except to say I made quite a bit of progress on one of the books I brought to read.  The plane to Grimsey is small and doesn't do well in the fog.  Apparently, it was foggy in Iceland so we sat around the airport waiting for two hours after the time the plane was supposed to depart, but no luck.  The plane wasn't going anywhere so we rescheduled for Wednesday.  We were a bit annoyed at having wasted time, but what can you do.  We decided to do the things we wanted to do on Tuesday that day, then we could do Wednesday's plans on Tuesday and go to the island on Weds.  So we drove to the town furthest away.  What a ride!  Some of the roads are right along a cliff with NO guard rail.  yikes!  We go to Husavik.  One of the museums we wanted to see had moved to Rek (too bad we didn't realize that when we were still in Rek) so we didn't get to do that, but we went to a museum all about whales, which was interesting.  We also got some info on what else to do in the area and directions for a "shortcut" on a road that was "a little bad" to get there.

 

 

 Now, you know how I was just commenting on the roads with the cliffs, well, that was NOTHING compared to what was coming.  Much of the ride was scenic, but then we had about 20 miles on a road in the middle of nowhere, that wasn't paved and could really only fit one car.  If someone was coming the other way (and it was mostly tourits like us coming the other way) you had to pull over so they could get by or they had to pull over so you could get by.  We had stoppped for food before getting on the road and I couldn't even finish my yogurt concoction because the road was so bumpy.  We didn't tell each other 'til later, but we were both praying the car didn't break down, get a flat, etc.  It was a long (approximately) 20 miles.  I was so glad to be on pavement.