Got up at 6 this morning. I have a busy day ahead of me so I needed an early start. Cheerios, pizza, coffee, and V8, what a great breakfast! I started wrapping up some presents and stuffing them into my spare backpack. I got three gifts done then I ran out of tape that I found in a drawer. Crap. I started off so well! Any who, I still have three people to shop for so this it’s not all lost that I ran out of tape.
Time to try out my new beard trimmer! Such a spectacular device! So smooth, felt great, and it did a great job. I didn’t know my beard had gotten so long, I couldn’t see the white of the sink with the amount of hair in there.
Leaving by 9:30, I started walking down Bankastræti, stopping in a store here and there, turned around, then around again. Did that three times. Fortunately enough the post office was right across the street from the last store I was in. Popping in, buying some tape, I also inquire about how to ship my backpack back home. They told me that they don’t have a box big enough but if I tuck everything in securely, they will be able to ship it as is.
Taking a couple of address forms with me, I went back to the apartment to drop things off, picked up my address book, and headed out the door. 11:30 rolled around so it was about time for lunch. I have eyed a place all week and I haven’t gone in just yet. Until now. The place is themed, even named after, The Big Lebowski! Got myself a cheeseburger, jalapeño poppers, and a white Russian. Was thinking of you the whole time Dave!
With lunch done, and 12:15 rolling around, it was time for my afternoon coffee. Off to Mokka I go! Going in, the girls behind the counter wave hello and asked me how many times I have come in. I responded with ‘probably six times’ and that this was the best coffee and best service in town. My coffee served, one of the girls inquire where I’m from, why I started here, and where I’m going. After answering her questions, she tells me of a trip she’ll be taking soon, pretty much the same as me but reverse. Fingers crossed that we cross paths later on!
Leaving the coffee shop I went back home to finish wrapping Christmas gifts. That took about a hour and a half. Quicker if I wasn't using packing tape. I stuff them into my bag, along with things I’m sending back home, tie it all up and taped the buckles, I make my way to the post office to send Icelandic Christmas back home.
Leaving my bag in their capable hands, I go to the bus station and ask how I’m going to get to my next place, Baula. She helped me in three ways:
What bus to take and how much it’ll cost me.
A quicker trail to take, depending on the weather, that will get me to my destination that much sooner.
That we’ve (North Americans) been saying Bifröst wrong this whole time. We say it like *bye-frost*. It’s actually pronounced as *bee-frist*, with your tongue in the position as if you were about to pronounce ‘L’ when you're about to start the ’S’ in frist.
Learn something new everyday!
I’ll be leaving my place at 7:45 tomorrow morning, grabbing a bus at 8, then grabbing another at 9, arriving in Baula at 10:45, hiking East for a hour and a bit, and should be arriving by noon.
Well, it’s time to pack. Thank GAWD I have this bigger bag. I have plenty of room after everything is in there so I have more room for groceries and beer. Finished packing at 8:30, grabbed a shower so that I wouldn’t need one tomorrow, read my book somemore, and planning to go to bed by 10.
There’s no internet access out there, not 100% certain that my cell will work out there either. If not, you’ll hear from me in a few days!
Talk to y’all later!