This morning we finally caught up with Kathy and Rick of travelin-tortuga.com. We met them for the first time back in May at Overland Expo, but we have been following their website since 2009 on our North/South America adventure where it (their website) was an invaluable aid to finding camping places. Back in May we had discovered that both they and we planned to be in Iceland at the same time and hence made an agreement to try and "meet up". Well this morning it happened. So we spent until early afternoon together exchanging Iceland info and talking about things "travel". It was fun and the talk of future travel plans may have inspired Nina and I to some new adventures.

After the get-together we headed out along the northern side of Breidafjordur, the first of two big peninsulas that make up what Icelanders call The Westfjords. The afternoons drive was a yo-yo drive through spectacular scenery. The yo-yo bit because the road mostly followed close to the sea and hence went in and out of each fjord and occasionally up over the mountains between fjords. I think we negotiated 6 fjords during the afternoon. The initial part of this traverse was through farming country but by days end we were in a wild largely un-inhabited place.

We pulled over early in the evening, in a gravel pit (one of our favorite camping places) on top of a rocky, barren, wind swept mountain.