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Stunning waterfalls, broken top mountains, craters, friendly animals and winter driving conditions - all can be experienced in a single day in this wild and ruggedly beautiful country. The weather hasn't allowed for much hiking the last 2 days but we've been enjoying our time nonetheless. We're together and when we turn a corner and see something beautiful, I wake Laurie from her nap 😴

A few highlights from Iceland. This country amazes with every turn of the road. We LOVE it here! You know what else is really great? The people in Iceland are just as wonderful as the scenery. So friendly, so polite and so helpful. It's day 6 and not once have we felt as if we were being taken advantage of or ripped off.

Iceland continues to amaze and awe. You can be standing on a black and beach and look back at a glacier. It’s crazy and beautiful!

Even the rain can’t stop the beauty of this country from shining through.

Everyone talks about the waterfalls and hot springs in Iceland but we never hear about the rainbows. We saw 14 of them on our first day. One of them was a complete double rainbow! Iceland is living up to its magical reputation.

A couple more pictures of the foliage from a few days ago - this time from #LundyCanyon Not being the type to only drive around, we had planned two potential overnighters. Ultimately we decided to hike ~3.5 miles out of Lundy Canyon to the 20 Lake Basin, pick a beautiful lake and set up our tent for the night. But the trail turned Swiss a few miles in (see last photo) and we thought it best to turn around. Talus covered the switchbacks making the terrain incredibly steep. Worse yet a dusting of snow lay upon the talus. It was sketchy going up but we knew it would be even sketchier coming down it at 6 or 7am the next morning. Because it was going to be in the 20s that night, the snow was likely freeze and we didn't have any traction aids with us so we chose to hike back to our car, drove toward Yosemite and slept in our Rav4. We were grateful to be cozy in our home on wheels and felt we had made the right decision.

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