July 25, 2000
Stop At A Roadsign
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On the way to Gullfoss at the beginning of the Kjolur Route, I stopped at a road sign to photograph myself by a sign when a car stopped and an old man got out. He walked over to me saying "Do you know where you are standing" "No" I replied. "Your standing right on the epicentre of the earthquake which happened last month."
I had seen the earthquake on the evening NRK 1 (Norsk Riks Kringcasting) television news a month ago that had caused a lot of damage, but because it was on the 17th of June, Iceland's National Day at 3 o clock in the afternoon, everybody was outdoors celebrating so nobody was injured.
The man pointed to a house a hundred metres off and continued "That house over there the ground opened underneath it."
Sure enough there was a large open crater in the road.
That was the first day which finished at Gullfoss. I was camping a little north of the waterfall at the start of the Kjolur Route.
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