26-27 October
Our trip has officially begun!
We decided to fly cheap as possible. It's uncomfortable, but we're saving at least $1000! Brief overview of "travels to:"
I nearly forgot my coat in the car at Detroit. That would have been bad.
Boston was mostly uneventful as we spent most of the time trying to find socially acceptable places to nap. We ate breakfast at Dunkin Donuts listening, humouredly, at the almost elegant Boston accents of workers in their mid-morning coffee break.
We walked with the light, chill breeze into downtown, under bridges and by the bay. We watched tourists mockingly defy the power of Great Britain by enthusiastically throwing fake boxes of tea into the river.
To our great luck, we happened upon a park full of red lounge chairs and took a 3 hour nap in the company of other weary travellers and Boston-ers. The park had community gardens on the edges and delicious, seemingly healthy food carts that lit the air with yummy scents.
The city, from what we briefly saw, seemed clean bright, and beautiful. Maybe I could live there, but I'd feel snobbish and pretentious. Perhaps it's too clean.
We ordered food and got bussed back to the airport where we waited 6 exhausting hours for our delayed flight with WOW airlines, "Iceland's most punctual airline." Our reaction turned from "wow!" to "wow..."
We've already met some interesting people: a family of Ukrainians (who I of course practiced my Russian on), a 1950s BGSU alumni (small world!), and a pair of 30 year olds who looked like they were 20 because they had "good Asian genes." The latter two were interesting until I realized they never were going to stop talking and their seats were so pleasantly and coincidentally right behind ours on our 5 hour flight.
But enough of the griping. We're on the trip of a lifetime! We are about to make our descent to Keflavik airport. We will be welcomed by a beautiful, stark chill and 50 minute bus ride to our B&B in Reykjavik.
So far, every Icelander is perfect and blonde. If the countryside is as beautiful as the people, we're in for a real treat.
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