WWHD?

That's what I'll be asking myself during the course of this trip: What Would Henry (m'fin' Rollins) do? Let me preface your first live blog from Reykjavik by saying I've been up for over 24 hours now and just had a latte at a cafe. I'M SO EXCITED I'M SO EXCITED I'M SO SCARED

Sitting in my aisle seat next to a kindly older woman, things were looking up for your beloved cat. Of course a few minutes prior to boarding, a woman shows up with her 1 1/2 year old to round out the row. Thankfully, I got saved by the nice IcelandAir crew who moved me to a window seat further back, presumably because they could sense my fear of that baby. At some point into the flight, I noticed a small red blurry spot out the window. As we flew north, it ended up being the moon, which grew to about a half moon during the flight... pretty awesome if you like that sort of thing. Towards the last hour or two, the sun started coming up over the horizon. Pretty great dawn view of the mountains in the distance, and the cloud cover looked like ice. Very nice scene until we hit 2,500 ft. and zero visibility. Yep, cold and misting, which is weird weather for a cat to be in.

Got to the hotel around 8 but couldn't check in yet. So I ended up walking down lasngruuvaturnuraji (sp?) street. Along the way I saw a pretty hot blonde girl in the passenger seat of a car going by. I ran after it, but it was going too fast. While I was drinking my latte, I swear I saw Macgruber walk by. It's a pretty fun game to guess where everyone is from. Soul patch? Frilly scarf/sweater combo? Acting like a douche? France. Trucker hat? North Face gear? Pal'ing around with your bro? USA. A little bit rolly-polly and laugh like an elf? Denmark. Maybe it's because I watched Inception on the plane, but it feels like everyone is looking at me, trying to identify the outsider.

I'm gonna get some sleep, recharge my batteries. Thinking about heading over to Sjavarkjallarinn for dinner and maybe a nice little night over at Nylenduvoruverslun Hemma & Valda. You know, all the usual places.

- CM