{"id":63480,"date":"2018-11-10T21:22:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T01:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2018\/11\/10\/saturday-night-western-iceland\/"},"modified":"2018-11-10T21:22:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T01:22:39","slug":"saturday-night-western-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2018\/11\/10\/saturday-night-western-iceland\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday night \u2013 western Iceland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just turn 1 AM and I am just sitting down to blog. Had a really wonderful quiet day here in Iceland. Woke up at 9:30 in the morning\u2026 Which is as late as I can ever remember sleeping as an adult\u2026<\/p>\n

Went for a longish run down to the sea then over to downtown<\/p>\n

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Around 12:30 my friend Anton and his Wife and two boys came by to pick me up. We drove out to the West It was so much fun seeing the scenery and hanging out with them.<\/p>\n

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We stop to get something to eat and one of the very few small towns that we found.<\/p>\n

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next stop was Anton small cabin that they just bought . it’s a hundred euro place that they’re going to fix up to be a summer house . it’s in such a cool place \u2026 kind of scrubby trees and views of distant mountains . we got there to find out that their trampoline had flown in the air and hit their shed . we spent some time picking it up and take it apart and put it in for the winter<\/p>\n

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Next stop was At the cabin of another friend of Anton’s\u2026 Are used to work at Ibm and now works at Origo where Anton works. He and his wife were wonderful hosts. They’ve been at that house for a long time and it was incredibly cozy. It was full of all sorts of old radios, interesting books and musical instruments.We got to sample their homemade beer, watch them put in reindeer tongues and reindeer hearts and pigeon breasts into their smoker. The smoker used wood chips and shit manure to smoke the food\u2026 Think about that.!<\/p>\n

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They had made a fire pit out of a stainless steel washer drum just like we had<\/p>\n

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We then went inside and ate dried fish with butter\u2026 I’ve always heard about it but it was really fun to eat. It was addicting<\/p>\n

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Next up was dinner and a dip in the hot springs. first a mandatory shower (with instructions !)<\/p>\n

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We then dropped and his wife and younger son back at the cabin and Anton and his older son drove me the hour and a half back to Reykjavik.<\/p>\n

It was a really great day. I’m so appreciative of them spending all that time to show me around.<\/p>\n

OK time for me to go to sleep. More tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Night all, night Sam<\/p>\n

– me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just turn 1 AM and I am just sitting down to blog. Had a really wonderful quiet day here in Iceland. Woke up at 9:30 in the morning\u2026 Which is as late as I can ever remember sleeping as an adult\u2026 Went for a longish run down to the sea then over to downtown Around … Continue reading Saturday night \u2013 western Iceland<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}