We skipped the food service on the flight to try to take a nap with limited success. We exited for customs and to try to find the rental cars. We needed local currency so did extracted $100,000 Iceland dollars. Seemed like enough for a week. It was close.
I must have looked tired when we arrived at the rental counter because the agent would not allow me to have a car until I drank a cup of coffee. They warned us of taking the car off-roads and how traffic circles worked which we were well prepared for. We headed off for a day trip to tour the Golden Circle route. The road signage was of no help so the first place we recognized, we stopped for lunch. Because I had never had the Swedish meatballs at IKEA, we decided it would be perfect and it was packed.
We pushed on to see a lake in a crater which had beautiful water but too cold to swim. From there we headed to a location with geysers large and small. Another 30 miles to see a huge water fall followed by driving through a national park back into Reykjavik for the Edition Hotel on the bay.
I dropped BB off at the hotel to return the car to a place which had no appearance of a rental facility – it was a bus stop. I walked back the couple of miles of cool fresh air.
We took a walk, had a burger and saw a long line of folks at 10pm in line for at a hot dog stand. We ended the evening with a view from the roof top bar.