The town of Isafjordur was an early stop on todays travels. It was quite a sizeable, and neat place. The local tourist information place informed us that some of the F roads are now open and that, may have the effect of changing our plans. We got a pamphlet giving the location of RV dumps around the country, useful info for us mobile house dwellers, and we got a few groceries and fuel. A small aside about buying fuel might be in order. Many fuel stations in Iceland (and more generally in northern Europe) are un-attended and to buy fuel at these one requires a credit card that operates with a PIN not a signature. But of course none of our US cards will work in these places (the US banking system is slowly coming into the 21 century, and we are told that 'next year' we will be able to get such cards from US issuers), but fortunately we have an Aussie card that will work. The other problem with these places is one must specify the monetary value of the fuel to be bought. Hence at these places we "top up" but don't fill-up. At this stop we could pay inside the convenience store and hence we could fill our tank completely.

Our route today was taking us towards the town Drangsnes, which is at the bottom of Iceland's most northerly peninsula and in keeping with the remoteness of the destination our way was through beautifully wild and remote countryside. But surprisingly we were on good paved roads almost all day.

During the course of the day we stopped at a museum devoted to the study of Iceland's arctic fox population. The foxes are hunted both commercially for fur and by farmers fearing for their lambs. But there is very little scientific information available about the impact of foxes on the sheep population or survival rates. The museum is aiming to fill some of that information gap. The museum has one live baby fox in their display that was brought to the museum by a local hunter.

We stopped for the night at a roadside pullout on top of a small hill, where we and the truck were rocked to sleep by howling, buffeting winds. Nina had to use her noise canceling ear-buds to get to sleep.