Thursday - Reykholt to Reykjavík to Newark to Hamden

The day was bright and sunny for our our final drive.

It has been an outrageously wonderful trip but it is time to come home.  Our dirty clothes vastly outnumber our clean clothes and Iceland does not know about laundromats (where do the folks who do not have washers do their wash?) plus we have to deal with Blue Car Rental about the accident eventually and it might as well be today.

It was an easy trip to the airport with a quick stop at Þingvellir National Park to see a small portion of the continental rift that runs through the middle of Iceland.

View of Þingvallavatn, the largest natural lake in Iceland as we approached Þingvellir

Þingvellir National Park 

Our last look at Icelandic lava as we approach the airport.

Blue Car Rental was pretty reasonable but we had to pay the deductible.  If both cars were moving (and both were) it is considered both contributed to the accident.

The flight was great, took off on time, and we had a free seet in our row, no turbulance and we landed early. The pilot landed the plane in Newark like he was Jeff Gordon coming in for a pit stop.  We were half way down the runway before the wheels touched down with a thud and a sway.  The brakes were applied hard and we came to a quick stop about a foot from the gate.

There was a question on the Customs Declaration about fruit and vegetables - they took two bananas and two oranges that we thought we might eat on the plane but didn't and let us keep some carrots and two apples.

There was another question about being in proximity to animals or being in a farmers field.  Well Iceland is basically recent lava with not enough vegetation to support for sheep, lava that has enough vegetation to support sheep, hay fields or villages.  The whole country is basically a farm.  You can't hike and not come in close proximity to sheep, lots of sheep.  The few cows and the horses have better fences.   So we answered yes. Iceland must not be country where the US worries about animal diseases because they did not ask us about how we came in contact.

We are safely back in Hamden looking forward to seeing the kids and grand kids.