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I woke at like 4am local time here and I’m not sure why. I do think I got enough sleep. I’m worrying now about the weather, of course. We have travel insurance so it doesn’t matter, but. We have to fly from Reykjavik Airport to Isafjörður today, which is in the Westfjords and has a tiny airstrip you have to kind of fly straight into a fjord to get to. So if the weather’s bad, they don’t fly. And it snowed last night– only an inch or so here, I think– I took a photo out the hotel window when i woke up– and it’s gusting wind so forcefully that shortly after I woke up, I thought the first gust I heard was a woman shrieking.
[image description: view out the hotel window down into city streets, with a backyard at the bottom with a dusting of snow and some steps illuminated by a porch light, and farther up more distant streets including a roof studded with tiny lights and a courtyard with a fancy mural of a graffiti word, and a white building with various oddly-shaped windows including a convex circular portal and a rectangular window showing the reflection of another roof made up of tiny lights.]
We went out for a Super Fancy dinner last night that was fantastic. Yesterday, we just spent lounging around the hotel, and I needed that– by the time we came home on New Year’s Eve I was in so much pain, mostly in my hip but my back too, and it was terrible, and I thought oh I’ll be so useless today– but I was fine, because we didn’t do anything. So! Good to know. I sort of feel guilty for lounging around a hotel room all day in a foreign country but I also know everything was closed yesterday. I also worked a bunch on the various sewing projects I’d brought with me, so that was cool.
I’ve been liveblogging the trip on Instagram Stories, but if you’re not into the ‘gram I also have been uploading uncaptioned photos to Flickr {https://www.flickr.com/photos/dragonlady7/}. I’ll probably organize those into an album at least, at some point.
I did take a few new year’s photos on my camera, my real camera, and have downloaded those to look at them but haven’t really examined them in detail. it was raining, and so i didn’t have the camera out that much. we’ll see, this may not be much of a trip for photography.
I’m hoping we can make our flight today, and once we get there, that the roads are clear enough to drive. We’ve got a two or three-hour drive to get to where we’re staying, and sometime after we arrived in Iceland Dude noticed that his driver’s license isn’t in his wallet, so I’m going to have to rent the car and do all the driving, so that’s fantastic and not at all alarming. I mean– I don’t mind, except that I know that if I were the passenger, I would be obsessively documenting the trip and taking photos and composing captions and so on, and if he’s the passenger he is going to just sit there and look at things and not take a single photo unless I directly ask him to and possibly explain how he should frame it. So like, that’s fine, but I really do look back at the photos and the stupid snapshots and Instagram story videos and the like that I take on these trips really often, and having nothing is going to be a huge bummer.
But I’m a perfectly competent driver, and am not particularly worried about that, I just know it’s exhausting. And if it’s snowing, we won’t be able to see any of the amazing view.
But, we’re staying in a place with hot springs and Icelandic ponies, and so regardless of the weather, I will experience those things, even if it is dark and we can’t see the view at all. Not that I’m going to ride any ponies, I just want to look at them. (I mean, if the weather’s nice, we’ll see, but I’m not here to struggle through a fucking blizzard, man, I could do that at home.)
And if it all goes wrong, well, we have travel insurance, and we can enjoy ourselves perfectly well in a hotel room somewhere, like we did yesterday. :)
I woke at like 4am local time here and I’m not sure why. I do think I got enough sleep. I’m worrying now about the weather, of course. We have travel insurance so it doesn’t matter, but. We have to fly from Reykjavik Airport to Isafjörður today, which is in the Westfjords and has a tiny airstrip you have to kind of fly straight into a fjord to get to. So if the weather’s bad, they don’t fly. And it snowed last night– only an inch or so here, I think– I took a photo out the hotel window when i woke up– and it’s gusting wind so forcefully that shortly after I woke up, I thought the first gust I heard was a woman shrieking.
[image description: view out the hotel window down into city streets, with a backyard at the bottom with a dusting of snow and some steps illuminated by a porch light, and farther up more distant streets including a roof studded with tiny lights and a courtyard with a fancy mural of a graffiti word, and a white building with various oddly-shaped windows including a convex circular portal and a rectangular window showing the reflection of another roof made up of tiny lights.]
We went out for a Super Fancy dinner last night that was fantastic. Yesterday, we just spent lounging around the hotel, and I needed that– by the time we came home on New Year’s Eve I was in so much pain, mostly in my hip but my back too, and it was terrible, and I thought oh I’ll be so useless today– but I was fine, because we didn’t do anything. So! Good to know. I sort of feel guilty for lounging around a hotel room all day in a foreign country but I also know everything was closed yesterday. I also worked a bunch on the various sewing projects I’d brought with me, so that was cool.
I’ve been liveblogging the trip on Instagram Stories, but if you’re not into the ‘gram I also have been uploading uncaptioned photos to Flickr {https://www.flickr.com/photos/dragonlady7/}. I’ll probably organize those into an album at least, at some point.
I did take a few new year’s photos on my camera, my real camera, and have downloaded those to look at them but haven’t really examined them in detail. it was raining, and so i didn’t have the camera out that much. we’ll see, this may not be much of a trip for photography.
I’m hoping we can make our flight today, and once we get there, that the roads are clear enough to drive. We’ve got a two or three-hour drive to get to where we’re staying, and sometime after we arrived in Iceland Dude noticed that his driver’s license isn’t in his wallet, so I’m going to have to rent the car and do all the driving, so that’s fantastic and not at all alarming. I mean– I don’t mind, except that I know that if I were the passenger, I would be obsessively documenting the trip and taking photos and composing captions and so on, and if he’s the passenger he is going to just sit there and look at things and not take a single photo unless I directly ask him to and possibly explain how he should frame it. So like, that’s fine, but I really do look back at the photos and the stupid snapshots and Instagram story videos and the like that I take on these trips really often, and having nothing is going to be a huge bummer.
But I’m a perfectly competent driver, and am not particularly worried about that, I just know it’s exhausting. And if it’s snowing, we won’t be able to see any of the amazing view.
But, we’re staying in a place with hot springs and Icelandic ponies, and so regardless of the weather, I will experience those things, even if it is dark and we can’t see the view at all. Not that I’m going to ride any ponies, I just want to look at them. (I mean, if the weather’s nice, we’ll see, but I’m not here to struggle through a fucking blizzard, man, I could do that at home.)
And if it all goes wrong, well, we have travel insurance, and we can enjoy ourselves perfectly well in a hotel room somewhere, like we did yesterday. :)
