If you're following REALLY closely at home, you may notice that the distance we covered today almost equals how much we've biked so far. If bikes were "cheating," then we're DQ'ed after a day with a rental car. In figuring out how to get to Akureyri, we decided bikes would take too long (the rest of the trip), busses were $360 (including bike surcharges), and last minute flights were too expensive. So we settled on a rental car for under $250 (the surcharge for dropping in a different "city" was more than half of the cost). We actually charmed the guy into a free double upgrade to a car that could fit the bikes, and were thrilled this meant we could stop along the way. Without going too far off route, we made quick stops at the arctic fox center (and saw cubs), a massive 50m natural hot pot, and some hidden hot springs in a town of 70 tucked into the rocks on the shore of the cold northern waters.
If so far we have biked from the San Diego of Iceland to the Seattle, then today we drove to Chicago. We're excited about the "Wrigley Field" and "Lake Michigan" of Iceland, but today was really a travel day.
Good decision that! You'll have time to really see all around Akureyyri...and should be awesome, how are getting from Chicago back down to San Diego? And when do you plan to arrive there?
ReplyDeleteHave fun up north, Nanu, Nanu.