{"id":2873,"date":"2012-09-24T16:02:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T23:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/?p=2873"},"modified":"2012-09-25T02:23:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T09:23:00","slug":"iceland-day-2-wk-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/24\/iceland-day-2-wk-39\/","title":{"rendered":"Iceland, Day 2 &#8212; wk 39"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leaving Reykyavik, I stopped at the geothermal power generating station for a tour.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2869\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1179-0039-Hydrothermal-Cooling-Towers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2869\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2869\" title=\"1179-0039-Hydrothermal-Cooling-Towers\" src=\"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1179-0039-Hydrothermal-Cooling-Towers.jpg\" alt=\"1179-0039-Hydrothermal-Cooling-Towers\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1179-0039-Hydrothermal-Cooling-Towers.jpg 600w, https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1179-0039-Hydrothermal-Cooling-Towers-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2869\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hydrothermal Cooling Towers<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Iceland is volcanic by nature, with boulders covered by bright green moss.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2870\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1179-0044-Volcanic-Rock-And-Moss.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2870\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2870\" title=\"1179-0044-Volcanic-Rock-And-Moss\" src=\"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1179-0044-Volcanic-Rock-And-Moss.jpg\" alt=\"1179-0044-Volcanic-Rock-And-Moss\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1179-0044-Volcanic-Rock-And-Moss.jpg 600w, https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1179-0044-Volcanic-Rock-And-Moss-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volcanic Rock And Moss<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Along the roadside, the grasses and bushes were in their autumn colors.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2871\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1179-0081-Autumn-Colors-Along-Roadside.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2871\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2871\" title=\"1179-0081-Autumn-Colors-Along-Roadside\" src=\"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1179-0081-Autumn-Colors-Along-Roadside.jpg\" alt=\"1179-0081-Autumn-Colors-Along-Roadside\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1179-0081-Autumn-Colors-Along-Roadside.jpg 600w, https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1179-0081-Autumn-Colors-Along-Roadside-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2871\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Autumn Colors Along Roadside<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Iceland has thousands of waterfalls. Many are a short trip from the main circle route.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2872\" style=\"width: 434px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1179-0092-Skogafoss-Waterfalls.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2872\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2872\" title=\"1179-0092-Skogafoss-Waterfalls\" src=\"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1179-0092-Skogafoss-Waterfalls.jpg\" alt=\"1179-0092-Skogafoss-Waterfalls\" width=\"424\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1179-0092-Skogafoss-Waterfalls.jpg 424w, https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1179-0092-Skogafoss-Waterfalls-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2872\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skogafoss, Waterfalls<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Finally, I arrived at Vik at the end of a busy day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaving Reykyavik, I stopped at the geothermal power generating station for a tour. Iceland is volcanic by nature, with boulders covered by bright green moss. Along the roadside, the grasses and bushes were in their autumn colors. Iceland has thousands of waterfalls. Many are a short trip from the main circle route. Finally, I arrived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[596,592,293,586,595,593,599,598,594,597],"class_list":{"0":"post-2873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-project52","7":"tag-autumn-colors","8":"tag-geothermal","9":"tag-grasses","10":"tag-iceland","11":"tag-moss","12":"tag-power-station","13":"tag-skogafoss","14":"tag-vik","15":"tag-volcanic-rock","16":"tag-waterfalls"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMatQ-Kl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2873"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2894,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions\/2894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}