8 Months to Iceland

Hey y’all, time has been flying by. Life has been insane, but I finally got my jewelry area set up. My Etsy shop is also reopened! You can click the LIBD Designs tab to see my current items and I’m hoping to get more added in the near future. Also trying to get some events lined up since I always have the most success with them. Speaking of getting things lined up… We finalized our itinerary!! On Day 1, we arrive in the morning, pick up our rental car, and then we are going to maybe stop at a grocery store on the way to Hella, where we will be staying for the first half of our trip.

We are staying there because we want to have a Hella good time! No, I will never stop using that joke. On Day 2, we will be going to see a few waterfalls and stop by Reynisfjara Beach. If you saw my last post, then you already know what it looks like. Then we will head back to Hella. Or Hvolsvollur, we actually haven’t decided, but I don’t really know how to pronounce that one without my whole face looking weird. So, for this post, we will say Hella.

Day 3 is Diamond Beach and Glacier Lagoon!! I’m so excited because I heard you can sometimes see harbor seals in the lagoon, and how cool would that be!?!?! Then it’s like a 5-hour drive from Diamond Beach back to Reykjavik, so we are going to look into seeing if it would cost extra for both of us to be able to drive. Then check into our hotel in Reykjavik. Because that is going to be a long day, and we have no idea what time we will be back in the city, day 4 is my favorite.

Day 4 is just sleep in and explore the city (specifically Rainbow Road and sampling the local cuisine) and then visit the Perlan museum. They have a northern lights show that is included with admission, which is supposedly super cool, but I’ll be the judge of that. Day 5 is going to be our whale watching and puffin tour, followed by more exploration of the city. There’s a park or something near the museum, I think. I’m not sure if it has trails or what, but I’m sure we will find something to do.

I lied. Day 6 is my favorite because we are going horseback riding on Icelandic ponies!! Then I’m going to talk my friend into an overpriced dinner at one of the fanciest restaurants we can find because I want to experience the height of luxury even if only for a few hours. Our first 3 days in the city are pretty flexible because the puffin tour and horseback riding are weather-dependent, so we wanted to have a few days here in case we needed to reschedule anything.

Day 7 will begin at a laundromat cafe so we can take home clean and pre-folded clothes. Be warned TSA, if you trash my suitcase after I’ve washed and folded all my clothes again. I WILL FIND YOU! And you WILL refold and repack my suitcase. Not that I would ever hold a grudge or anything. Then we will get everything packed up, and it’s about an hour to the airport, where we will drop off our rental car, hop on a plane. Hopefully, we’ll be home later that same day.

So that’s it. Absolutely no plan to smuggle a puffin back to the US under the guise of an emotional support animal. Just normal travel things. We are hoping to start booking at the end of November because I heard sometimes you can find Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals on travel as well. I don’t know if that’s true, but I’ll find out and I’ll let you know. I’m just happy I remembered to post this on time.

I gave this to Chat GPT to proofread, and it said I should consider making a bullet point summary of the itinerary to make it easier for readers to reference. I know it always has good intentions, but I told it that if I were going to summarize it, I wouldn’t have gone to all the work of writing it out. To paraphrase Ron Swanson, “Read. Or don’t. I’m not a beggar.” If you want a bullet point summary, go ask Chat GPT like I did. It’ll be way better than anything you’ll get from me. I promise!

Thanks for reading, and if you have any recommendations for things to do in Reykjavik, please let me know! I would love to hear about it! I’ll see y’all in a month!

Sincerely,
LIBD