Rebecca M. Douglass, Author

Also, happy Halloween! I kind of decided this year to ignore the whole thing, but hope you all have fun! Here's the link to post #1 of the 2-week trip.  Day 3 (Sept. 13): Snaefellsness Peninsula Visiting Iceland in September has some advantages over a summer trip: fewer other tourists, darkness that means you may see the Northern Lights, and lower prices for many things. But there's no denying that the weather is a great deal less stable than it might be in July or August, and it takes more luck than I had to have good weather all the time. I learned fast to take advantage of sun when I had it, so that sometimes I did things that weren't on my plan in order to do something interesting while the weather was good. Other things got skipped because the weather was wet and windy. My third day in the campervan turned up sunny and "breezy" after the windy night. I was already learning that wind is what you get. I drove into Snaefellsjokull National Park and immediately ...