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Wilderness

A clear day in mid-November and we're crossing Jökuldalsheiði.

The Central Highland of #Iceland covers most of the interior of the country. It's situated primarily above 300 meters (1000 feet) and is uninhabitable. The soil is mostly volcanic ash, the rivers don't have bridges, and the terrain is filled with basalt mountains and lava fields.

It's also extremely beautiful, albeit in a desolate way. No wonder NASA trained astronauts here.

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A photo of a landscape under an almost completely clear cyan sky. On the horizon is a range of bare mountains, steep-sided brown rock. The foreground is an undulating plain of brown dirt, covered in scattered rocks sized from gravel to boulders. From bottom centre to middle right of the shot, a dirt road lined on one side by snow-poles is snaking ahead and disappearing over a rise. Beyond it, flat ground can be glimpsed.
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Pedro Quixote ‽ aka MultiVax
Pedro Quixote ‽ aka MultiVax
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We were there in the summer of 1987. Seems a very long time ago now. Wonderful memories.

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