the last pic was nearly back in rvk. just the dark clouds brewing. there was a large section of road near snæfellsjökull that was being worked on while i was there and it was the worst kind of dirt road for about 10km. hopefully it will be fixed in the next month or so since i think i may spend some more time there depending on work and visitors. i haven´t had any probs with tarmac blown away but gravel roads have become apalling over the winter (the road to solheimarjökull was the death of my old car, and part of the road had fallen off a cliff!) the problem with wind is blowing snow over the road. an example:
i encountered this coming home from ísafjörður over easter and was driving 90km/h and suddenly it looks like that. heavy braking ensues...
so there´s a native icelander here. i guess with 90,000 odd members it had to happen. with luck they´d live in the house between myself and abaya and ktspktsp (mind you a house is almost 1/2 of this city :P )
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mother nature made the aeroplane, and the submarine sandwich, with the steady hands and dead eye of a remarkable sculptor.
she shed her mountain turning training wheels, for the convenience of the moving sidewalk, that delivers the magnetic monkey children through the mouth of impossible calendar clock, into the devil's manhole cauldron.
physics of a bicycle, isn't it remarkable?
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