{"id":20804,"date":"2022-10-05T14:45:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T14:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gossip-themes.com\/minervawp\/?p=291"},"modified":"2025-12-31T07:42:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:42:43","slug":"iceland-roving-five-days-in-the-land-of-fire-and-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/iceland-roving-five-days-in-the-land-of-fire-and-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Game That Finally Lets You Live Your Fantasy of Being a Bickering Married Couple"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We scoped out a handful of super cool destinations worth exploring in the Nordic island nation. With nearly every step, my microspikes slipped off the soles of my chukka boots. I couldn\u2019t have picked worse footwear for hiking a snow-covered mountain. To be fair, I didn\u2019t plan for much on this Iceland vacation, never mind hiking, so I\u2019d packed light for my five days in Reykjav\u00edk. Enveloped in fog, I could only see one step in front of me the entire way up the steam-belching mountain \u2014 barely enough to follow in the footsteps of the few others also braving these poor conditions. I was heading to Reykjadalur Valley to bathe in the Thermal River, and with my current sleeping conditions, I sure as hell needed it. So here I was, ill-prepared, uncomfortable, and alone. What the hell was I thinking?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iceland is a volcanic island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean with a population of around 360,000. Though the entire country has the population of a small American city, it accommodates hundreds of thousands of tourists at any given time, making places like Reykjav\u00edk feel urban and cultured. But if I was going to explore Iceland, I was going to need a vehicle \u2014 a four-wheel-drive one at that. The roads can be challenging, and the weather is notoriously fickle. I reached out to our friends at Ice Rovers in Reykjav\u00edk and they happened to have a Snow White Rover available for me to carry my aimless ass around the ice-covered island: a Defender 110 lifted with 35\u201d tires and all the fixings necessary to handle any unpredictable Icelandic weather Mother Nature was scheming to send my way.<\/p>

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The romance of sleeping on a 100-year-old sailing ship in the frigid Reykjav\u00edk harbor sounds like a decent-enough idea. It wasn\u2019t. It was awful: cramped, smelly, and a bit cruddy-feeling. I\u2019m a New Englander through and through, so communal spaces make me uncomfortable. I need my privacy. This is most apparent when I\u2019m forced to share a bathroom with a bunch of other humans I don\u2019t know. And on one fateful morning, those humans ran a train in the bathroom situated next to my cabin, and the smell woke me from a deep, drunken sleep \u2014 the perfect complement to my throbbing cranium. I don\u2019t suggest it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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People find waiting more tolerable when they can see the work being done on their behalf<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Possibly the best pizza I\u2019ve ever had. I ate dinner here two out of my five nights in Iceland. Then, when I got home, I went and bought all of the ingredients to attempt to recreate the pizza for my friends. It wasn\u2019t nearly as good, but it was still a hit. Go here, get the Umberto, and thank me later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peak-end rule<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Rover was my ticket and curiosity was my guide. This was a personal trip with no specific objective, so my agenda was as follows: food, museums (minus a particular one dedicated to dicks), a DC-9 plane wreck, soak in as many hot springs as possible, and maybe hit a waterfall or two. The Rover did exactly what it\u2019s supposed to do; it lorded over city traffic, conquered the snow-covered roads of the countryside, stalled and flickered its dash lights occasionally, and gave me an all-around good old time with that ever-present Land Rover \u201cis it going to strand me out here?\u201d sensation that is so characteristic of these rigs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • People find waiting more tolerable when they can see the work being done on their behalf<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • The peak-end rule is a cognitive bias<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • The time to acquire a target is a function of the distance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Here are a few destinations worth checking out \u2014 or avoiding \u2014 if you happen to find yourself with a few days and a dirt-cheap ticket and decide to make your way to the land of fire and ice. People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that\u2019s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    We scoped out a handful of super cool destinations worth exploring in the Nordic island nation. With nearly every step, my microspikes slipped off the soles of my chukka boots. I couldn\u2019t have picked worse footwear for hiking a snow-covered mountain. To be fair, I didn\u2019t plan for much on this Iceland vacation, never mind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":14809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[313],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21067,"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20804\/revisions\/21067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truefacet.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}