*translation: I really will be off line for a few days. Don’t worry – I’ll take notes and pictures.

We started at sea level. We drove through mountain passes. We drove around fjords.

It was sunny. It rained. It snowed. There were micro climates moving in and out of the fjords and up and down with our altitude.

Roads were paved. Roads were gravel. There were bridges. And there was a 6 km long tunnel with an intersection inside.

When we got here (Isafjordur) we were late for dinner – so we ate the best (leftover) cold fish – ever. And then the chef made us a special dish. We pointed to pictures to figure out what we were eating.

Dude says that we traveled to the end of the earth and we still have a buffet breakfast like everywhere else.

My bag is packed – everything is clean and charged; chargers are packed.

The plants are watered; the cats are fed.

Now, do I unpack the dishwasher or cast on??

Iceland, the Ring Road, two weeks. I have every intention of posting a Lopapeysa a day but I know there’s a few days with no known internet connection.  Be well!

I was in this dark cold space, with million year old water dripping on my head, and suddenly I understood on some visceral level what global warming meant: the space I was in was created by water runoff – runoff from the glacier drips. That huge ginormous chunk of ice was melting – despite the cold, despite the snow; it was continuing to shrink.

A few years later and I’d go to Antarctica. Something about these very cold, very old places gets to me. I can feel it now even as I type.

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That middle photo amuses me - apparently, I've been taking texture-y geometric-y closeups for a while. Black is crushed lava sand next to white foam wave on a beach.

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My entire reason for being in Iceland in 2001 was to check out the possibility of driving the Ring Road.  (National Geographic Traveler had an article in 1994 that started this all.  I’m still trying to locate it in hard copy.)  Ten years later, Dude is making it happen.

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Note the first:  Plants and gardening couldn’t have arranged to be on a “normal” schedule this year?  This two weeks early is killing me.

Note the second: I wavered for about a millisecond on the “what yarn to bring to Iceland” question.  Franklin reminds me that there is yarn in grocery stores.

Note the third: We can also blame Clara. I think there’s still has room. (Don’t quote me on that.)

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On a housekeeping note – I’m trying to figure out the posting from iPad and links to Facebook and Twitter.  (Updates are slow due to that missing FIOS router which is arriving today.)

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This is Spirit Trail Fiberworks Sunna in the Sea Grass, Ancient Stones, and Winter Solstice colorways.

I will be making Color Affliction/Affection/Addiction (like 2,305 other people on Rav. And more (based on MDSWF** yarn pushers purchases.)

It will be my Iceland travel knit.

*FIOS router is shot (I’m working off a slowish hotspot) (I know, I know: the horrors. I am so spoiled.) But it prevents me from uploading pix and really getting caught up. Sorry about that.

** which was, once again, awesome.

Someone had other plans.

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p.s. And, actually, she took turns (wrt lap space) with the boy cat:

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