[/caption]First trip of the year complete. We went to Iceland just as the economy crashed. It was great best sale ever. Things were half price because the currency split in half this weekend. It seemed ironic that they were having problems due to the credit market and everything ran on credit. Even the tiny hot dog shop had a credit card machine. Although I was grateful cause I had no cash but really wanted one of the famous lamb hot dogs. Bill Clinton had one so I needed one too.
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[/caption]Me and Maureen shared a snowmobile when we went snowmobiling on the glacier. It was amazingly beautiful. It was hilarious getting up to the glacier on the bus because I've never seen a bus off-road like this.
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[/caption]We took a plant tour of the geothermal plant. They have worked really hard at making the plant as efficient as they can. They have also diversified into a spa lagoon and a hot water plant. It was great to see how well the geothermal plant was doing at utilizing the resource of the hot springs. They were working really hard at finding ways to export the free and abundant energy they have in the ground.
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[/caption]The sad thing is since they have so much free and abudant energy they are not very green. The process in which they get their energy and hot water doesn't harm the enviroment like it does in the states but they waste this resources like they are infinite.
I think this picture summarizes Iceland pretty well.
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