 Olafsvik (A) to Reykjavik (B)  Snaefellsnes  Last day in Iceland, Neda is looking wistful at the thought of leaving We rode through most of the Snaefelles peninsula today and re-entered Greater Reykjavik Area. The transition to urbanization was quite noticeable compared to the desolation of the rest of Iceland. 2/3rds of the population of the country live in the areas surrounding Reykjavik.  Timmies meet in Reykjavik! Our bikes were very out of place with our two weeks worth of gravel-dusted, bug-encrusted and dried rainwater-ed packmules amongst all the shiny cruisers and sportbikes.  Due to a hotel change in Reykjavik, we had to transport our luggage by motorcycle. Sketchy tie-down job, but the Rok-Straps held! Everything I know about motorcycling, I learned in India. After this picture was taken, I picked up 3 more passengers in addition to the luggage and we all rode to the hotel in flip-flops. I stopped writing daily entries for our Iceland trip fairly early on. Nothing exciting really happened to us. We weren't mobbed, nor did we have any difficulties communicating; we didn't ride through floods or any other natural disaster (even though we were surrounded by volcanoes), our motorcycles didn't break down every day, we didn't get food poisoning, altitude sickness or suffer a motorcycle crash. Each day's entry would probably read like this: Woke up, it's cold, but the scenery is F-ing amazing!!! Saw some cool wildlife today. And then we ate them. Signing off...  Entrance to Vid Tjornina, a comfy Icelandic restaurant  Had a great dinner with smoked puffin at Vid Tjornina Right now we're experiencing the most dramatic thing that's happened to us in the last two weeks: waiting in the Iceland International Airport while Hurricane Irene hammers the New England coastline. Our flight to Logan has been delayed 4 hours and counting. Exhilarating stuff!!! And it's not even happening here! Iceland is really all about the scenery, so we did more picture-taking than diary-writing. From the jagged coasts of the West Fjords, to the lush, green farmlands of the Northeast, the geologically hyper-active Myvatn area, and the tendrils of Glacier Alley in the South, we just took lots of pictures and tried to provide interesting narrative to go along with them. Hope you enjoyed them - we enjoyed reading your comments, it was like taking you with us!  Iceland rocks!
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