Vesturland

The wind has been crazy. Soooo annoying. It’s driving us crazy. I asked Chelsea this question: “Would you prefer doing these hikes and seeing these views on a cloudy, dreary, rainy day or prefer the wind?” She chose the rain. It’s relentless, it truly is. Today many roads were closed as people were thrown into ditches. One road we were supposed to take had wind speeds up to 45 m/s or over 100mph. That’s a Cat 2 hurricane. This has been forcing us to go to different areas, take different routes and forget some locations all together. The locals say that this isn’t normal. But we’ve had two storms while we’ve been here. So it definitely seems normal.
So today we took it easy, slow start meaning we had good coffee and just hung out. Finally at 12:00 we got moving back up to the peninsula we wanted to visit earlier. Our driving time was doubled as we had to take a gravel road for about, 75 - 85 miles. We made just one planned location but about 7 total stops. The wind was from the N so it was really cold. But this one waterfall/mountain mix was so beautiful it was worth roughing it. We could only hang out for about 15 mins before we couldn’t feel our fingers or even tell if we had a nose or a chin anymore.
Our last stop was to our campsite which is a hostel. You camp in the parking lot 😂 and use the hostel facilities. So we went inside this warehouse, I mean hostel, called “The Freezer” as it was very cold inside. Watched the meeting, made dinner, read a book, watched motorcycle racing, played ping-pong with some other travelers, and then went out driving in search of some more aurora action before bed. Aurora forecast said they were really good at that moment. But, they were mostly nonexistent. Next day, calling for less wind. Let’s see!Les mer