Today we continued with wind and rain swept fjords, though now there is a bit more traffic, and the road surface is mostly sealed as we are on Highway 1. Mid morning we stopped at a little village (Djupivogur) to see a display of stone eggs called Eggin I Gledivik. The display was put together in 2009 by a local (and internationally recognized artist) Sigurdur Gudmundsson.

While at it we bought a few groceries and I stopped in for a coffee at a local cafe. There were a couple of young ladies (late teens, early 20s) serving and of course they spoke English. Talking to them got me thinking about the challenges of living in such small isolated communities - for example, as a young adult one does not have a very wide range of choice for a partner.

Eventually we arrived at our destination, the town of Hofn. On the map it looks like a large town or small city, but in truth we (in the US) would call it a small town. (Population 1640) It was to be our first night in a paid campground as we needed to find internet for some business back in the US but the campground hosts told us "that their machine was not working", so it was off to a local cafe, and after it closed (2 hours early according to their own sign) the local information center. Business done we took advantage of the shower and clothes washing services.

Todays pictures do not show this (as the weather and light was too bad) but Hofn has a dramatic setting. It has a view of the ice sheet that covers the SE of Iceland (I mentioned this earlier) and at least three large glaciers can be seen in the distance coming all the way down to the ocean.

The pickup truck. The huge tires are so that trucks (like this one) can drive on the ice/snow of the ice cap. This particular one has axles from a Unimog and the little flash of orange color in the front wheel is all that can be seen of the central tire inflation system. And yes it is a Dodge RAM.