Category Archives: Iceland

Adventure motorcycle riding

Iceland: AKA The World Of Margaret Weiss & Michael Ende/Insert Favorite Fantasy Author

Despite extensive travel over the past 11 years on 4 continents I have never before felt like I had entered a fantasy novel.  (Well, except for being fairly convinced that if fairies did exist they had a kingdom in the …
» read more

Iceland’s Number One Road Hazard: Fluffy, Cute, & Oh SO Deadly

The dangers of Iceland’s roads include nails, screws, pot holes and Icelandic drivers themselves. But surprisingly none of these compare to the beady eyed master of ambush most commonly thought of as a sheep. Especially for the motorcyclist. Sure, if …
» read more

Resistance Was Futile…

I fear I have succumbed to assimilation.  When I first arrived in Germany it was suppose to be short term, just a trial run so to say, in order to see if me and the German would work out.  Plus …
» read more

Scratch The Hype, You Are NEVER Alone In Iceland

Even without the scary tourist information man’s speech of the impending doom that awaits all those who dare venture into the badlands of Iceland’s interior, the place had already been hyped to us by guidebooks as an isolated, only for …
» read more

Welcome To Iceland! Too Bad I Hate It Here….

The road to Kverkfjoll Picture this:  Us, bright eyed, enamored with Iceland, so much so that our first day we never made it out of our first fjord because we could not comprehend that Iceland was not just all we …
» read more

In Iceland & Already The Camping Card Has Paid For Itslef!!!

We made it!  2 days and 3 nights on a ferry (we arrived here the morning of the third day!) and finally yesterday morning we arrived!  We took our bikes off the boat, and decided to check out Skalanes, a …
» read more