Since arriving in Iceland, we met up with Debbie & Saevar, rented our car for the week and took off to head to Akranes, a fishing village about 30 min. outside of Reykjavik and Saevar’s hometown. On our way, we stopped in Reykjavik as we were insanely hungry and stopped at the Bæjarins Betzu (“The Town’s Best”) hot dog stand for a hot dog. These famous dogs are made with Icelandic lamb and are reputable for being insanely good….and they certainly were. The meat was so delicious and the dogs were snappy. I’ve never had a hot dog like this—I have a feeling we’ll be eating a lot of these…

I haven’t blogged recently as we’ve been traveling quite a bit — to Napa and then to Hawaii (both for weddings)….and now, we are in Iceland! We’re here for the next 8 days and looking forward to visiting geysers, waterfalls, glacier lagoons and many many dips in geo-thermal swimming pools (such as the Blue Lagoon). Don’t know how much Internet access I’ll have (using free wi-fi from the airport right now as we wait in the baggage claim for Debbie & Saevar, our traveling partners, to arrive from NYC). First impressions before leaving airport: wow, the blue lagoon is huge from the air damn, this place looks barren—better not breakdown…