Iceland Ho! - Keflavik to Hveragerði - Day 1

World Tour - Day 1
So the flight in was nice, with one major exception. I was getting copies of my credit cards, and of course forgot them in the copier. So now I am here with just a little bit of cash. So far it is going pretty well. Getting around by bike is actually pretty cheap.


Keflavik to Hveragerði
Time: 11 hours
Date: August 19th, 2009
Distance: 115km
Country: Iceland
Song of the Day: Downtown Sundown - Thin Lizzy (Because Phil knows.)

The bike ride was long. The countryside around Iceland is amazing, and like almost nothing I have ever seen. In places there are mossy rocks off to the horizon. It is also pretty barren. No trees, and in a lot of places not much else. There are a few small towns around, which so far have been nice. Occasionally you see sheep grazing near the roads. It rained about mid-afternoon, so that didn´t help. I don´t mind being cold, but the wet was annoying. I was glad to have the waterproof panniers. But as I mentioned earlier, the ride was long. I left at 10:00AM and didn´t get to the Hveragerði until 9:00. The last hill outside of town nearly killed me. As I was rolling into town I had to keep from falling asleep. I stopped for some food and was so tired I could barely eat it. Also had an interesting conversation with a local who kept talking about the Catholic church starting a civil war in Iceland. I think he was drunk. It is harder to tell if someone is drunk when they don´t quite understand English anyway. After I finished eating, I went to the tjaldsvæði (campsite). The place was nice and they had warm showers, which was just what I needed. After that I went right to bed.

-Dravis