According to the weather man, it was supposed to be fine and partly sunny, partly cloudy... So, Harry Hyundai set ...

My birthday was on September 13th, but as I was curled up painting and generally unplugged from the world, the ...

I am in Iceland at present, and I was in quite the quandary about how to celebrate my birthday weekend ...

Yes, the Blue Lagoon may be a natural wonder, but it also comes with astronomical entry fees and gazillions of ...

Just over an hour north of where I am staying is the lovely peninsula of Borgarbyggð - but while the ...

Although it was rainy and misty when I left home, by the time Harry and I made it to the ...

...and finally homeward bound... This is actually a gas station!   (just the pump - the shed is locked) Notice the ...

Leaving the land of heart-shaped traffic lights... ~ Bella ...

...and I discovered why Santa was hitchhiking...  He has a retreat in Iceland... These next two photos cracked me up ...

Quirky as it may be, one of the things I wanted to see were the 'Hearts in Akureyri' traffic lights! ...

Again, there is no possible way of conveying the majesty, power, and beauty of the falls... ~ Bella ...

~ Bella ...

Why the photo of the planking that leads to reception?  Because some silly bunny made the spaces between the boards ...

What an extraordinary sight!  Bubbling, sulfur-smelling, mud pools! ~ Bella ...

What started out with beautiful waterfalls... eventually turned into a lunar landscape... ...but still with stone pyramids everywhere... ~ Bella ...

~ Bella ...

In Hróarstunga, Geirsstaðakirkja is a replica of a 1000-year-old farm turf church, which stood on this spot in the time ...

One often finds strange things along the way... ...like striped rocks... ...and coloured lumps of concrete with old monitors on ...

First, watch this clip - I was just there!!!  ...and drove that road!!!  ...complete with the movie's soundtrack playing in ...

As we all know, if it's on Google, it must be true... ...that's why, when there was a sign on ...

34 huge granite eggs represent the eggs of each of the nesting birds in this area, many of which are ...

This is what you get when you put an engineer together with a house designer in 1954 and ask them ...

Continuing on my 'Walter Mitty' quest, Harry Hyundai and I went in search of the supposed 'Nuuk' airport... Here is ...

Höfn í Hornafirði is a relatively new settlement, with people first living there in the early 1800s.  It only became ...

At times like this, I wish I had more superlatives in my vocabulary...  I was literally AWE-struck! Jökulsárlón - literally ...

Diamond Beach is a strip of black sand on the greater Breiðamerkursandur glacial plain, so called for the 'diamonds' (chunks ...

Continuing on, we go in search of the last turf church ever to be built in Iceland... Originally constructed in ...

When the Vatnajökull volcano erupted in 1996, the 880-metre-long (2,890 ft) bridge was damaged by icebergs the size of houses ...

Leaving home (aka my lovely hotel where everyone is taken such wonderful care of me), first stop is filling up ...

Leaving Stykkishólmur, we went in search of a giant padlock and, as in the words of Supertramp, we took the ...

During the final part of this road trip, I didn't realise that the 'road' trip would be minus a 'road'!  ...

"You want me pump you?" Harry Hyundai needed some go-go juice for our rather adventurous day trip, and I was ...

Harry Hyundai and I went out to pick up a couple of supplies, and decided to take the scenic route, ...

First job for the morning - packing Harry Hyundai, ready for our adventures, with things such as: Water Phone gadgets and ...

To see life; to see the world; to eyewitness great events; to watch the faces of the poor and the ...

Before I share my afternoon's meanderings, here are some photos of the place in Scotland I just left... apparently as ...

Home sweet home for the next couple of months is a what amounts to a delightful Viking hunting lodge, right ...

As I upload this it is just after 9:00pm and I don't know what is happening outside but there is ...

It turns out that now even cabin bags with wheels are banned from most flights and my beloved baby Louis ...