2024 Travels: USA and Iceland

Today the morning is starting out very sunny and nice, besides the bugs but I should probably stop bringing them up. We then went over to the mine visitor center. We were told officially we can’t do our tour because the mine is flooded up to like floor 15 and the pump is working overtime to get it out. Turns out the reason it flooded was because it was the rainiest day on record and on the same night the pump was struck by lightening and broke! How crazy! As we thought about doing a hike or maybe an above ground tour it started to look like it was really gonna rain. So we had lunch in the parking lot and then decided on a hike. As soon as we started walking it promptly started to pour!! We were soaked to the bone and then you’ll never guess what! When the rain stopped the bugs came out in droves. It was a very painfully annoying walk and we kept making wrong turns on it which made it even longer when all we wanted was to be done! Why couldn’t we find the start to this hike!! We need a break.Läs mer