The Adventures of Scotty, Sue and Dan Aboard Narnia (and other adventures)
The Adventures of Scotty, Sue and Dan Aboard Narnia (and other adventures)
We mentioned the last post that the streets around Ísafjörður were strangely deserted, well now we know why. Tonight Iceland was performing on the EuroVision Song Contest! It is hard to overstate the popularity of this contest in Europe! It was being broadcast on EVERY channel on our hotel room TV. It has been going […]
May 20, 2021: Day 3 of our 12-day drive around Iceland road-trip. Today we left the village of Patreksfjörður and made the drive to Ísafjörður. Although it was only 117 miles, it took over 6 hours to cover the distance. We passed through the tiny remote villages of Tálknafjörður and Bildudalur before making our way […]
May 19, 2021: Day 2 of our 12-day drive around Iceland road-trip. Today we explored the village of Stykkishólmur while we waited for the car ferry to to Brjanslaekur in Iceland’s Westfjords. “Exploration” of this tiny village consisted of getting fuel at the AO station, morning coffee at the local bakery, picking up lunch at […]
Tuesday,May 18, 2021, Day 1 of 12 of drive all of the way around Iceland. This should be our longest driving day as we drove 300 miles from Reykjavik (10+ hours), through the Snæfellsjökull National Park, to end our day in the village of Stykkishólmur. Such a beautiful country. We drove through lava fields, hot […]
We took a nice 7 mile walk around Reykjavik. Many of the stores and attractions are still closed and maybe a handful or two of tourists. Highlights of our walk today included the Braud & Co Bakery (delicious croissants), the Hallgrimskirkja Chapel (closed), the Old Town Harbor area including the dry docks which Dan loved, […]
After leaving the Blue Lagoon, we traveled along the road to explore some of the local landmarks on the way to Reykjavik. Our 1st stop was at Reykjanesviti Lighthouse (Dan love’s lighthouses!) for a quick photo op as it was closed to visitors. We then moved down the gravel road to the beach to visit […]
Every travel book, article, blog, or guide says that you can’t go to Iceland without a visit to the Blue Lagoon Spa. It was “along the way” on the drive from our quarantine hotel in Keflavik to our hotel in Reykjavik so we decided it was a good time to plan a visit. We book […]
We worked with Iceland Tours to book our Hotels and to put together a loose itinerary of things to see and do during our stay in Iceland. This will be a self driving tour completing a circumnavigation around the country in just over 12 days. The idea is to see as much as we can […]
We landed at the empty Keflavik airport at roughly 6AM local time on 5/15/2021. We were here! It’s kind of surreal to realize that after all the isolation, life pauses, canceled plans, and hic ups that we’ve actually made it. Now we just need to see if they will let us in! Covid-19 testing on […]
We are finally off to Iceland. We flew from Oakland to Seattle on 5/13/2021 were we spent the night. The Seattle airport was a culture shock to say the lease. We have been social distancing / isolating for over a year and boarding in OAK was quiet and a bit sedate. When we exited into […]
What started out as just a quick trip to the marina to “check on the boat” while Sue was working, turned into a 4.5 hour Friday sail on San Francisco Bay. The weather was perfect! Lots of folks out playing hooky on a Friday. Weather started out as light 8knot breeze and built to about […]
One of the benefits of being retired is that you can go sailing whenever the wind and weather are nice. You are not relegated to whatever the weekend holds. Today, Thursday was such a day. Clear sunny skies, warm breeze blowing high teens to mid 20 Knots, and an almost empty bay. It was the […]
For folks that have been following this blog, you know that we have been trying to book travel to Iceland since our China trip was canceled in early 2020. They say that the 3rd time is the charm! We are now confirmed for Airline, Hotel, 4WD Rental Car for travel to Iceland in May 2021. […]
The negative tide was a bit too low for Narnia to navigate the channel for sailing this morning so I opted for a morning paddle on SF Bay. It was a gorgeous Spring day with almost no wind and dead calm in the bay. There was not another boat to be found, not even the […]
Since it was such a beautiful Friday morning on San Francisco bay, and Narnia has been raring to go for weeks, I decided to take her out for a solo jaunt around Alcatraz Island. We cast off at 8AM with calm N winds, clear skies and flat water. Except for the occasional commuter ferry, Narnia […]
We received the an email this morning. Iceland is opening up travel for vaccinated Americans. We are both vaccinated and anxious to move on with travel life. It’s time to take bucket list planning off of pause! Let the travel begin!
It was a gorgeous day in the SF Bay area today. A perfect day for boat projects. Narnia came to us with a circa 2005 22″ LCD TV. The TV actually still worked fine, but it wasn’t really viewable except from straight on, drew 70W of power, and it lacked support for modern streaming technology. […]
We’re spending the weekend aboard Narnia and enjoying the Spring-like weather here in Northern California. We spent the day knocking out some small boat projects, decluttering and cleaning. The to-do list never ends. Scotty is enjoying his walks around the marina. We never get tired of the sunsets.
Our wonderful neighbors (Patty and Bob) shared some gorgeous photos of our small Capri 18 sailboat (Narnia’s little sister) that we keep docked behind our home in the delta. Photos of the Capri are as viewed from their backyard. We are truly fortunate to live in such a beautiful waterfront area. From our dock we […]
It has been a rather wet and blustery week here in Northern California, so I decided I had better head down to the marina to check on Narnia. Upon arrival I noticed that one of the spinnaker halyards had wedged itself behind the port spreader light about 30′ up the mast. For the life of […]
