The CamperVan Vulpix
Iceland with Rent.is
Hello! Ciao! Halló! We are Dayton, from the land of hamburgers (USA), and Margherita, from the land of pizza and spaghetti (Italy): a couple which is in a LONG-distance relationship. And what a better halfway place to meet if not Iceland?! With little planned besides a campervan for the last 5 days of an 8 day vacation, we ventured forth into the land of fire and ice. Who’s excited??
Reykjavik
To start off, the Icelandic language is hell on earth. Is this a joke? Guys you want to make our lives impossible? Absolutely not! Why? Well, all the Icelanders speak perfect English and have a smile for everybody! What a great atmosphere! We learned about 2 words…. “takk fyrir” which means “thank you”. Other than that. The name of the buildings, waterfalls and mountains had nicknames and hand gestures to describe them. Survival training ?

Blue Lagoon
We jumped on the bandwagon and took a trip to the world’s most breathtaking hot spring, the Blue Lagoon.
Disclaimer: When they say don’t get the mud mask in your eye…DON’T GET IT IN YOUR EYE!
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Picking up the Camper van from Airbnb
From our Airbnb in Reykjavik, we were picked up and brought to the nearby office to acquire our camper van. Margherita was very anxious to see her living quarters for the next five days because she has never done such an adventure like this. Upon arrival at the Rent.is, we were quickly greeted by one of the employees who showed us our camper van and answered all of our questions. We gathered our bags and headed to Krónan for some grocery shopping: getting ready for our real camping life! Winter is cooooooming! We couldn’t wait also to give immediately a name to our camper van, Hey it deserves it! It’s so cute, with many nice colorful drawings on both sides; we loved so much the little fox on our door that we called our van “Vulpix”! (we’re grown ups but still love Pokemon, proud of that!)
Day 1 – Waterfalls

New route was chosen: the southern part of the famous road 1 headed to Vík. Just so you know, windshield wipers went on and off like a thousand times, ah! We stopped on our way to enjoy the magical waterfalls that this country has to offer.

Going on, also the Black Sand Beach by Vík was very unique. It was a must see with the powerful waves crashing against the black sand.
Then, it was time to choose our first campsite! And we found for sure our fav one of our whole trip: right at the feet of Skógafoss, way better than any other 5 star hotel……don’t wake us up please! We can’t even explain how many stars were in the sky that night.
Day 2 – Hiking
Day 2: yes! The weather had been good to us and that meant one only thing: hike time! The starting point was near Selfoss and our goal was to reach a natural hot springs river, couldn’t wait to soak in that! How many times in life you get to do such a thing?! Dayton was happy as a little kid in a candy store! Marghe was too, until she almost died because of the cold air after the dip in the river haha but she has no hope! A lizard can regulate body temperature better then her. ?
Day 3 – The Golden Circle

Main activity of the day: waiting for 30 mins in front of a spot we thought was a geyser with great anticipation but was later told by a fellow traveler that it goes off every 6-8 hours….

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Day 4 – Snæfellsnes peninsula
We woke up this sunny morning with no plans. We looked at our maps and decided to head north. We set our target on the large peninsula above Reykjavik. We drove for about 3 hours going from rainbow to rainbow and waterfall to waterfall until we hit the town of Grundarfjörður. Margherita was the outstanding navigator that only had to pee about 500 times. We relaxed all day walking around the town and took great pictures at Kirkjufellsfoss waterfall and Kirkjufell mountain.
Day 5 – Broken windshield wipers
The day of rain had come upon us. We woke up and it was raining and didn’t stop till we went to bed. This day was especially bad because our wonderful van’s wind shield wipers broke!

Random stuff
Language – impossible
Weather – changes faster then your behavior when entering a church
Great things about the Van
Internet – Very handy when navigating
Heater – Even Margherita was toasty
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