Well, here we are sitting in front of the computer just 24 hours into our trip. We can´t get in to our hotel room. It´s not "ready" yet. Lesson number one: never mistake backpacking for a luxury vacation tour. We slept for about 2 hours on our flight over and would really love nothing more than to take a nap right now. The frustration may be due to the utter state of relaxation we´re in after soaking in 100 degree silicon infused thermal baths. The Blue Lagoon quickly embraced us. We rotated from steam bath, to sauna, to massaging waterfall and back again. The best part for me was watching Michael do all this, his face smothered with exfoliating silicon face mask. I never thought my husband to be the spa type but he´s quickly adjusting. He says his cheeks have never felt so smooth.
The landscape of Iceland is the most unusual we´ve ever seen. It feels lonely and barren here. There is no vegetation at all except dingy moss covering the expanse of volcanic rock. Its as though the world fought a brutal war, destroying everything, and we´re here discovering it a hundred years later, moss covered and desolate. And yet all of it has a striking beauty, one we feel fortunate enough to have seen with our own eyes. We will take pictures, of course, but nothing will capture the essence of this place.
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