Before we left for Iceland, I had made a ton of plans for the trip. Most of the days, there were two or three different sights to see or activities to do… it’s been a super active trip. But today, we had no plans. We needed to get from the glacier area to Egilsstaðir, a town on the far east side of Iceland. It was gonna be a long drive. Initially, i was going to look up things to do/see on the way, but I more or less ran out of time. And anyways, it turned out that the drive was much longer than i expected it to be, about 230 miles.
So, we just spent the day driving. And wow, it was a hell of a drive. The east side of Iceland is basically a ton of fjords, a crazy zig zag of winding coastline. This is definitely one of those “it’s all about the journey and not the destination” kind of things, where just the drive itself is phenomenal. The scenery is totally breathtaking, with beautiful coastlines, giant snow capped mountain peaks, quaint tiny villages with that classic Icelandic architecture, and horses/sheep grazing. I was having to pull the car over time and time again to pop out and take photos of this and that. Also, along the way, we stopped at some random village and had a nice lunch of the local specialty, langostines, which are kind of like mini lobsters.
Though we didn’t really “do anything” today except drive, it ended up being a super nice day.
