July 11, 2017
Dear Friends,
We are almost ready to leave for Iceland and Greenland. Am trying to refresh my memory about working with images in the blog and decided to practice by sending you maps of the islands we are visiting to get us all oriented. I hope you can blow up the images to see them better. It is amazing to see how much larger Greenland is compared to Iceland. There are few roads in Greenland, forcing people to fly from point to point or dog sled. Not for us. So one stop there is all we will do. Iceland is much more hospitable as you can see from the road circling the island as well as many side roads.
Although we fly to Reykjavik first, we spend only one day there before flying west and north to Ilulissat, Greenland above the Arctic Circle on the west coast of that island. You can find the spot next to Disco Bay. Originally we planned to add Greenland at the end of the trip, but our travel agent, Unnur at Iceland Unlimited, could not accommodate us. So, we will spend 3 days and 2 nights in the coldest climes of the trip before returning to Reykjavik and beginning our counter clockwise tour of that island. By then, Iceland should feel down right balmy.
We leave home at 9am on Wednesday, July 12 by Uber and will be home again late on the 27th. Am having trouble packing for arctic air with so much heat here. I will probably be unfashionably overdressed in a dough-girl look. Watch for coming photos.
Map of Greenland
Detailed road and physical map of Iceland
Map of Iceland with cities and towns
Adventures with Julia 