The land of fire and ice.

  There was rain in Atlanta yesterday afternoon. Apparently around New York City too, so the first part of our adventure here is the familiar tale of travel problems. We were three plus hours late getting out of Atlanta, got to JFK by midnight and our flight to Reykjavik was long gone. JFK's concourses echoed with emptiness. No Delta agents to help. I jumped on the Delta chat line but they just said see a gate agent for help. We walking along dragging our suitcases, and Fred saying maybe we should find a good corner to spend the night and me saying no. Finally we found the TWA hotel at terminal 5 and it is connected to JFK  I was trying to stave off a headache that started earlier when on our plane two women erupted into a yelling fight because one accused the other of cutting in line in the aisle.  We spent the night at the TWA hotel. It cost $420/night. We are now supposed to leave for Reykjavik tonight at 11:15 p.m.  There are other costs and lost travel plans messed up but you

Update: Well, we WERE hoping for a good night's sleep in Reykjavik but now we've been delayed and lost a whole day. We are now hope to land in Reykjavik on Thursday morning, Sept. 1. We will get our car and head north on the Ring Road . It will be a three hour drive to our first country guesthouse near Blonduos.   💥

  We planned the logistics of this trip to Iceland in March and since time flies here it is almost time to snap on our N-95s and economy class seat belts to fly north on Delta. We are excited to be journeying  almost  all the way to the Arctic Circle. Thinking about the Arctic Circle made me find this map which I love because it is so  telling . Drawn from the top of the world perspective, it makes me realize that there is more land inside the Circle than I had imagined.  Also, look how small Iceland looks next to Greenland: We had planned to begin this journey Aug. 16 but Fred got a fever which we later found out was a sinus infection. We were worried it could be Covid so we postponed the trip. Now, we are here on Tuesday, Aug. 30 and we are back on track, headed north. We fly to JFK, then get on an overnight flight to Reykjavik.