News Archives - February 2008

Ísland

2/2/2008

I have soared o'er snow-covered mountains at close of day

Snow-covered mountain

I have warmed my hands in Geysir, first of the geysers, moments before an erruption

Strokkur errupting at Geysir

I have crossed the frozen lake Tjörnin

Lake Tjörnin, frozen over

I have drunk molarkaffi in a roadside shop, for a road that could barely be seen

I have walked through snow as high as my waist

The top of some benches, just visible poking out of a snowdrift

I have felt the spray of Gullfoss freeze my face

The waterfall at Gullfoss

I have watched Europe and America drift apart, no faster than my fingernails grow

One of the rifts left by the continental plates separating

I have lived... in Iceland

Me, striding out into another world