Iceland's stunning landscape, much like its people, is a ever curious mix of spectacular contradictions. Icelandic people are often hip, urban, modern and worldly, but they are also just as often the sturdy, rugged farming and fishing sort, tightly tied to tradition. Yet each live side by side, one representing Iceland just as strongly as the next. Similarly, Iceland's score of thundering waterfalls, with streams icy blue pouring into green meadows, is a stark contrast to her steaming volcanoes surrounded by abysses of gray ash. But they are both very much Iceland. As are its miles of snowy glaciers, stretching alongside the black sand beaches of the Atlantic, separated only by the two-lane pavement of Route 1. In Iceland, everything is in motion. Massive pieces of broken slate, as if from a giant shattered blackboard,
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