Traveling with a Busload of Torons.
Well today our luck improved considerably, as we saw these sites just before the skies opened each time we’d just get back to the bus. First off, the strike’s averted and we will get home as scheduled. So, I don’t need to pull up stakes to become a fishmonger’s wife. We started the day meeting many Icelandic Horses, who are in gait boot camp or they will become dinner. While the horse pictured can be used by Donald Trump’s hairstylist for inspiration for our comb-over in Chief, I tend to believe that this equine Fabio just doesn’t believe it’s not butter. We continued to the Southern most edge of Iceland where the earth’s crust is its thinnest. Sure, why not take a 4-ton bus filled with tourists to the most remote area on the Island and give the Earth’s thin crust a run for its money? Unlike with pizza, I’d prefer a deep dish crust to my Earth. We finished the day at the famed Blue Grotto, a geothermal spa about the size of 2-3 football fields. That’s a lot of mineral water, which makes me wonder why a Perrier is only 7 oz. I got to experience what it must be like to be on the track team at Yokohama High School, as the the women’s locker room teamed with Asian women with no regard to personal space, as I dressed. I sublet my locker to one of the smaller girls, who found it roomier and less expensive than her hotel room. After dinner, with all Northern Lights tours cancelled, I remained optimistic and we headed to the harbor for a potential viewing. We were treated to the Northern Lights pale sickly brother, the Northern Very Lites, as we saw an undistinguished green tint in the sky. Aurora Bore-me-to-tears!
Update, on another note, this summer’s Captain’s Log-Traveling with the Ancient was a cruise on the Independence of the Seas, which I named Not Independent from Disease. Well sure enough in today’s news, someone on board didn’t washy washy and they all have neuro-virus. So all in all, I’d rather miss the Northern Lights 5 nights in a row, the cancelled 11 hour tour, and be rained and snowed upon, then to be on the high seas squeezing the Charmin.
Rubber Chicken 