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Hallgrímskirkja church in Reykjavik illuminated pink  during the month of October for international Breast Cancer Awareness month Thursday, October 27, 2022 Hofsstaðir Country Hotel, Skagafjörður, West Iceland, Borgarfjörður, and Return to Reykjavik Imagine Peace Tower and Hallgrímskirkja in the night sky (but no Northern Lights-too much light scatter) Our last full day in Iceland. It's a cold and frosty morning at  Hofsstaðir Country Hotel .  The hotel is located on the banks of Héraðsvötn overlooking the fjord and the sea. The sunrise today is stunning. After a yummy breakfast we have a few minutes to walk around and take in the beauty of Skagafjörður. We only have a few stops left but we have a very long drive from West Iceland back to Reykjavik. And because s**t happens, John Paul discovers there's a bad bearing on our luggage trailer. So we pull over and unload all the luggage into the van. We are now enjoying "cozy" seating. But being rugged Icelandic adventur...

For our October Adventure this year we decided on ICELAND , the Land of Fire and Ice . It literally is the land of FIRE (Volcanoes-at least 57 of them) and ICE (at least 3 major glaciers).  Unfortunately, we missed the effusive eruption of    Fagradalsfjall volcano by a month. It's labeled effusive because the lava does not burst from the earth's crust in an explosion of ash and fire like Eyjafjallajökull  did in 2010. Rather, the lava emerges from the volcanic fissure forming molten rivers of lava . This eruption was very near to Reykjavik allowing for easy viewing-locals and geologists labeled it a "tourist eruption". But, like I said this second eruption in 2022 had ended in September (dang!) before our tour began. The eruption of Eyjafjallajökull (it literally means "the glacier of the island mountains")   in 2010, put Iceland on the map when it's 71 day eruption caused the airports in Europe to cancel flights because the ash cloud wa...