Outside Akureyri

July 29, 2000

My hand drawn map of the Central Northern area from coastal fjords and valleys south to the geographical centre with colour shading to represent the actual colour of the landscape on the ground.

Nice morning with lots of breaks in the clouds with temperatures a little higher than yesterday. I have bought enough food to last until Monday. The 50 km to Gudafoss was the hardest I've done. First, I had a long hill away from Akureyri. Then the rest of the way was into headwind. And not long after starting, two women from Reykjavik stopped their car and got me to take their photo with the fjord and city as a backdrop. They showed utter amazement when I told them I'd cycled from Reykjavik, especially that I had come up the Kjolur.

After a well spent one and a half hours relaxing at Gudafoss (a majestic waterfall by the Ring Road where the legend goes that in about the year 1000 a chieftain of the north returning from the Ting, when the Icelandic parliament adopted Christianity, cast all his pagan things into the river here and the waterfalls become known as God foss or Gudafoss thereafter), I made 20 km along road 85; a road leading to the northeast coast where it has turned out a fine sunny evening after a chilly overcast afternoon. I am camped along a river estuary with the constant song of seabirds.

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