Tag: Iceland Travel

Falling Back in Love with Travel in Iceland

The airport was insane. A line that loops back not twice, but four times, before heading up the stairs to customs. We had arrived in Iceland – four planes from the U.S. carrying tourists who were ready to reemerge from a really long year and a half without travel prepared to fall back in love…

Travel and Our Planet: Iceland was So Beautiful it Hurt

At some point along my first long drive in Iceland, my friend, Yael, fell asleep sitting shotgun as I rounded the sea-side cliff roads on our way up the Snaefellsnes Peninsula. Sometimes as you’re driving the less flat stretches of the Ring Road, you’ll be going up a hill and you can’t see beyond the…

Road Trip Down Iceland’s Golden Circle Loop

Ask anyone who’s ever been to Iceland by way of Reykjavik, and one of the first things they’ll tell you they did while they were here was hit the road to embark on the Golden Circle loop. And, unlike some tourist traps that are obligatory yet in reality not worth the hype, the Golden Circle…