Rebecca M. Douglass, Author

If you enjoyed my hike through Iceland's Highlands on the Laugavegur trail ( here , here , and here ), wait till you see all the places I took my rental campervan! Day One: Gullfoss, Geysir, Brúarfoss   I started my day early (painfully so, after my late dinner and evening out with the hikers the night before), catching the bus back to the airport for pickup by the campervan people. Of course, I had visions of picking it up and being on my way by mid-morning. In fact, it was nearly 1:00 before I had the van, had bought groceries, and was on my way. Since I liked my van and thought I got good service and a decent price from Happy Campers, they can have this bit of advertising :)  It was a Nissan NV200 or something of that sort, for those who know such things. I got the "EX" package which is an older van (2017-19) and manual transmission, which saved me about $20/day. Sometimes being old isn't all bad--I learned to drive on a stick shift, so this was no problem for me. ...

Last week I started sharing the photos from this amazing trail in the Icelandic Highlands. Here's the next installment, where the weather turned... Icelandic :D Laugavegur Trail Day 2   (Sept. 7): Hrafntinnusker Hut to Alftavatn Hut You remember that lovely view from the hut from the previous evening, right?   Conditions in the morning were... changed. The wind was coming up, the mist turning to rain, and it was clear a) why the tent sites have rock walls around them, and b) that I was really glad I'd chosen to stay in the huts. From the start I was wearing my rain gear, my camera optimistically still on the shoulder strap though under its cover. Spoiler: that didn't last long. Within half an hour, the wind and rain had both picked up, I'd stowed the camera, put on the poncho (with a lot of tucking to keep it from flapping, and the rest of the day took cell phone photos. Despite the conditions (and inability to see the mountains that surround the caldera through which ...