A day from my diary - #explored 05.02.23

            A few things I already reported about my little solo effort
for 5 days Iceland. Here is a sequel:

On this day I drove to a mountain plateau. All the way, for hundreds of miles, the land was flat like a flatfish.
Then I saw a silhouette on the horizon, enveloped in clouds.

It looked like the base of a mountain, but ...
You don't suppose me to go up there, right?

Google says, "turn right."
The mountain, or its base, was on my left.

I turned right, it looked like a parking lot .....!?
No, it was the start of an off-road path.
I said: "4x4? I have, let's go!"

What happened next is from a world that cannot be described. I have never seen such landscapes, nor heard of them, or had any idea that something like this exists down here on Mother Earth.

Every hill offered such a spectrum of colors, every curve offered a new view. If you got out of the car and walked a few steps behind the rocks, a new gate opened, as if from another planet, a world never known. I crossed rivers with my car and by reaching the other side, again a completely new cosmos. It went on for hours before I reached the Landmannalaugar area.

My god, what a ride cross-road thru the mountains and volcanic areas. Again it felt it would never end, a journey to thru the Genesis of this globe, a travel thru time of a billion years.

You should watch me sometime when it happens. I'm jumping off the car, shaking my head while I try to capture only an idea of what is to see and to feel. I feel small at the sight of this, then tall that it's me to be able to witness this enormous ability of creating such a landscape far from this world.

May I was unlucky that I had rain all day every day, the happier I am to have been able to watch planet earth as the maker of things I never had the slightest clue of this beauty.

It's time for me to pack.
A time I will always remember.

- Beppe -
   

Taken on: August 28, 2021

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