I had always wanted to visit fjords ever since reading The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy as a kid… picturing Slartibartfast carving them up was something that always stuck in my mind. The first ones I got to visit were in Iceland after I went up north to stay in Akureyri for a few days. I had actually intended to go one place that my friend Helga suggested, but I ended up getting lost, which is okay enough. This fjord valley kept going and going as the sun started to rise over the edges. I pulled over every few miles whenever the moment seemed right to shoot, and it seemed right so often!

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Man…it’s cold in Iceland.

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This lighthouse is directly across the fjord from Akureyri, which is just a quick and slightly chilly swim away.

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I walked around this church a few times to get the right angle… and both times around I stepped into the same mega snowdrift. I think it happened the second time because I cursed the first.

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It was a rough day in Akureyri, so I spent most of the day on the internet in conference calls with the other cold as hell place I go a lot – Ukraine. Closer to sunset, I went down to the docks to see some of the old weather-beaten ships and found this…

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I drove up to the extreme north of Iceland yesterday to do some serious exploration. I told my mom not to worry… the roads are not too bad. I know that sign says “Impassable”, but that sign is clearly for other people, or it is written in Icelandic and means something completely different in English.

I could try to describe how cold it is, but I will not.

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