56 bird species! A complete list in AOU order will be coming soon!
We departed Akureyri (in North Iceland) midday on June 23 and flew to Reykjavik's city center airport. From there we took the FlyBus Shuttle for the 40 mile trip to Keflavik International Airport (Reykjavik's domestic flights use the City Center airport and the international flights operate out of Keflavik).
One doesn't need to arrive early for a flight out of Akureyri. We arrived 1 hour 10 minutes prior to our 11:40am flight... not outlandishly early in our opinion considering we had to drop off our rental car. But the rental car counters were all closed, and when I picked up the Avis courtesy phone it rang the Avis employee at her house! She arrived at 11am, found me in the terminal, took the keys and rental car agreement, and then came back with the processed paperwork.
One thing that speeds things up is that there isn't any security screening one needs to go through to board a plane. Most people seemed to show up about 15 minutes before departure.
You can't help but like an airline that allows you to roll your bike onboard!
It was cloudy the entire flight, except for the first couple of minutes after takeoff and the last 2 minutes before landing in Reykjavik.
Our Icelandair flight took us over Greenland, Labrador (Canada) and Maine to Boston. We arrived in Boston in time for dinner.
Today, June 24th, Mom came by my office for breakfast and a tour of the Harvard Medical School lab at the hospital, and then we took a ZipCar to the airport for her JetBlue flight to Orlando.
And now we're both home!
And now we're both home!What a wonderful vacation!
We saw 53 bird species!
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