– Reykjanesbær, Iceland to Denton, Texas – I’m writing this one a few days late, so I can’t call it yesterday, because that just wouldn’t be true. I’d like to blame the jet lag, if that’s all right with everyone else. Yes. Jet lag made me postpone this one. I promise you didn’t miss a…

– Grundarfjörður, Iceland to Reykjanesbær, Iceland – Today, since we thought we needed to hand in our car at 3pm, we were all prepared for a short day in Reykjavík after we drove back over to it from Grundarfjörður, and a long evening of getting to our hotel and hanging out until we need to be at the…

– Grundarfjörður, Iceland to Hólmavík, Iceland to Grundarfjörður, Iceland – Today is what I would call an interesting day. Last night, we decided that we really needed to see the Arctic Ocean, so Mark drew a map that took us around the national park on the little peninsula we are on, then over to a small town on the…

– Vík, Iceland to Grundarfjörður, Iceland – We didn’t get up until 8am this morning, which was pretty fantastic. I was pretty sleepy since yesterday was such a long day, so it was a good thing that we planned today to be a bit lighter. The morning began with the promise of sunshine, and that promise…

– Vík, Iceland to Höfn, Iceland to Vík, Iceland – It was a rainy day in Vík today when we woke up, and it stayed that way all along the coast for pretty much the entire day. Despite that, we had a plan to make it over to Höfn, and we were pretty determined to get it…

– Reykjavík, Iceland to Vík, Iceland – And so begins our journey across Iceland. I say that, but I’m not sure you can go across the middle of Iceland, especially this time of year. The middle of the country is a big ball of ice in many places. I guess what we are doing is more……

– Reykjavík, Iceland – Today was the big day- we finally got to ride Icelandic Horses! Don’t tell Mark, but this is really the reason I came. You don’t see very many of these little horses outside of Iceland, since they don’t really believe in exporting them, so it is really special to ride them. We…

– Reykjavík, Iceland – Mark still had conference work to do this morning between 9am and noon, so I spent my free time stretching and doing crunches and things to get a halfway decent workout. I didn’t have enough room to bring any running gear in my luggage, so my exercise today was limited to what…

– Denton, Texas to Reykjavík, Iceland – Kristy here, as special correspondent for Ripley, who unfortunately couldn’t make this particular journey, since no one is putting my precious baby in the cargo hold of an airplane. Maybe someday (haha) we will have a private jet, and Ripley can travel the world, but for now, no planes for…