Sunday, December 17, 2006

Winter vacation 1

This was written in Iceland, where there is a lot of (guess what) snow and geothermal heating. Apparently it used to be all covered with trees, but the Vikings came over here, lived for quite a while, weren't too environmentally conscious and ended up chopping down most of their trees. T'was a beautiful approach by pane, with all the glaciers and other formations that our trip geographer filled us in on. Last night we took a tour of the city which included a walk over a lake that wasn't completely frozen, because part of it was warmed geothermically and had ducks on it. A curious situation, but we all survived. Sunrise is at 11:19 AM this morning, and today we're heading over to the Blue Lagoon, which is a man-made pondish thing heated by Centigrade-200+ degree lava. Wish me luck.

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