Its been a while since I have reported any of my travels here. It seemed like time.
A few hours ago I departed for a new adventure where I’ll spend a very long day exploring a new country, then head off to an old favorite to meet up with some dear friends and enjoy some world class soccer.
I just watched the sunrise over Greenland. A fitting place to start my trip. While the majority of Greenland is nothing, but I ice, the coasts are beautiful and quite different.
The western coast is rocky and ice-free. You can see the obvious scars the ice has left in the form of nearly straight fiords and valleys, and thousands of islands. A few miles inland ice begins, at first it is quite rugged looking, but quickly smooths out into a featureless plain. Eventually mountains start to peak through the ice sheet as you near the coast. In places you can see cobalt blue Melt ponds, where water is melting on top of the ice. The east coast is quickly upon you. This is where the ice meets the sea and Greenland glaciers give birth to north Atlantic icebergs.
Next stop Reykjavík!
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| Sunrise over Greenland’s west coast |
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| A melt pond. |
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| Ivebergs born on the east coast. |
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