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Feel The Milky Breath Of The Glacial Beast Stir Your Lactose Intolerance

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So this is where it ends. The minibus pulls to an open field of straw yellow encroaching upon shores strewn with ancient lava, and Snaefellsjokull volcano and glacier dominate the horizon.  The turistas all run down the paths at it like some great white Pied Piper, as if they had a shot at reaching its foothills in the 35 minutes we were given. 

They do not reach it.  

I shrug, pull the camera out, make peace with the fact that there are too many garishly bright jacketed foreigners in the field of view.  I take the picture.  Snaefellsjokull is a Mt Shasta wannabe.  

Love Is A Crater, A Hole Where I Got Swallowed Up And Then Other Stuff Happened

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In the west of Iceland, a very Nordically named area of Bifrost-hmmm, sounds familiar–we mixed band of motley travelers climbed a winding set of wooden stairs until we hit the rim of Grábrók crater, whereby we were promptly greeted with a smashing gust of wind that literally bent some o’ the littler folk over, and the bigger of us became shaking kites in our parkas, leaning hard against the wind as we took one step, then another along the narrow rim.   But the views speak for themselves, and loudly.  This particular image above was taken from the gravel rim of the crater out to the surrounding area. Fall colors indeed…hellaciously beautiful.  Then, of course, everyone dashed around and back down the steps lest they be blow into the depths of the crater.  Spoilsports. Live a little!