We leave Seat­tle on Fri­day, June 22nd on good ol’ Jet Blue. I love the red eye flights. Seri­ously, you waste no day­time fly­ing. We land in NYC the next morn­ing. Thank god for my par­ents who have gra­ciously offered to pick us at at the crack of dawn and escort us out to Con­necti­cut. We’ll stay with them for sev­eral days enjoy­ing the beach, some time in Man­hat­tan, etc., before head­ing to Ice­land on the 25th. We arrive in Ice­land on the 26th and head back to the States on July 6th. This will give us a nice long time to expolore.

Our cur­rent thought is that we’ll no doubt go broke b/c this place is so expen­sive so we may as well expe­ri­ence every­thing we can. I think we’ll spend a few days in Reyk­javik before head­ing out into the coun­try­side. There is lots to do in the capi­tol, muse­ums, bars, fes­ti­vals, long sum­mer days, food, the Blue Lagoon hot springs, etc. The plan is to then rent a 4x4 camper and take off to see the rest of the island. It’s $350 a day for the camper but that will be our hotel, etc. I fig­ure we’ll eat at the gro­cery stores and cook in our camper stove.
One thought is to try and get to Green­land for sev­eral days. There are daily flights from Ice­land and aren’t too spendy. It’s a two hour flight. Or the Faroe Islands. Either way, we’ll prob­a­bly not get back to these areas again so should see them now.