FRIEND OR FOE FRIDAY!!!

              SO many friends and foes in just 6 short days in Iceland.  Check it out and, for the love of God, leave a comment so I know you're there.  :)

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1)       FRIEND!  That’s ME in a popular Viking winter hat.  C’mon, of course I’m a friend of me.

2)      FRIEND!  This is my good pal Joi that picked me up on the side of the road when it was dumping down rain.  He gave me a ride 300km back to Reykjavik and taught me so much about the Icelandic culture!  I can’t say enough nice things about Joi.

3)      FRIEND!  Shai was the guy I explored the south coast with.  He was a good travel partner and we have plans to reunite when I visit Israel in a couple months. 

4)      FOE!  This is the creepy guy from the Reykjavik airport that asked me to watch his bag and seemed to have a lot of holes in his life story.  I wouldn’t trust this guy with my toothbrush so I reported him to security.

5)      FOE!  This is airport security waking up a backpacker at 3:00am.  As you can see one of the guys is poking him and the second guy is coming over to question me on why I was taking pictures.  Hahaha.  He didn’t appreciate how humorous I found the situation.  They did a better job at waking up innocent backpackers than actually apprehending creeps.  They didn’t do much of a job in tracking down the creep found above.

6)      FRIENDS!  I met had a blast with backpackers Jamie from New Zealand and Jorge from Espana at the geothermic swimming pools.  The guy on the end, Oscar, is the brother of the girl they were couchsurfing with.  We were all very relaxed after 4 hours in the pools.

7)      FRIENDS!  These are the first guys that picked me up when I was hitchhiking.  They were better at driving than keeping their eyes open for the camera!

8)      FRIENDS!  These are the Icelandic locals that I went whitewater rafting with.  Steini and Andri are hoisting up Sven following a very cold day on the water.  Andri is wearing a typical Icelandic wool sweater because even big guys can get chilly.

9)      FOE!  This was the REALLY annoying American I met on the bus from the airport into town.  He insisted on telling me about every country he ever visited and I contemplated suicide.

10)   FRIEND!  This was the really cool American I met on the bus from the airport into town.  I was filled with self-doubt and had some tears welling in my eyes when this guy struck up conversation.  Five minutes later, I was feeling better about the adventure to come.

11)   FRIENDS!  These are the two Canadian hitchhikers, Heather and Zack, that we picked up and drove to Vik.  Here they can be seen skimming rocks at the glaciers in pretty much only clothes they brought with them on the trip.   We were glad to have picked them up- the more, the merrier!