Mon 7-28-08 Besides having read about the Arctic in books and having seen the glossy photos in magazines, I had never really given much thought to what lay north of me. I live on Lake Erie, and so “north” is zebra mussels and maple-leaved flags. When mum sent me the scholarship application, I filled it out on a whim. It would be wonderful to travel, and as an aspiring biologist and a life-long nature lover, I was sure that I would find myriads of interesting flora and fauna . . . in the mean time, I had studying to do . [View Full Entry]

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Iceland is fantastic! The weather has been great, the sights amazing, and all is well with the World. Access to computers has been challenging, however: everyone has their own! To be honest, I´ve really enjoyed being disconnected from my website, email, facebook, twitter, youtube, et al. I´ve decided today to not bother with blogging for this trip. I´m going old school: pen and paper, camera for later, messages to family and friends - as for the rest: I´ll tell you all about it in September! I hope everyone is having a great summer. I wish you all well and I´ll see [View Full Entry]

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With the sun out and a warm breeze we had a walk round the landscape around the hostel. Kasia was feeling a bit under the weather from some pesky cold so we kept it fairly short. We set off north, inland now over the pass deeper into Eastern Iceland. Up a gravel road (and on a steep bend) Rosa unexpectedly came face to face with a bus and became detached from her motorcycle. Unfortunately that wasn’t the only thing to be detached from the motorcycle - a footrest came off too. There was only one thing for it, as soon as [View Full Entry]

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