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April 01, 2008

First Thoughts & Impressions

The Icelandic hospitality was wonderful and they welcomed us warmly. The taxi driver who drove me from the airport to the hotel spoke with me about the geology of Iceland and said, “in Iceland the plates are coming apart while in California they are bumping together.”

Driving in from the airport I was reminded of my time spent on the Big Island of Hawaii. The temperatures were not the same, but the rugged lava beds that flowed out to the ocean were similar in their sparse vegetation, jagged, crumbling rock, and the feel that one is experiencing the world as it was millions of years ago, before the advent of animal life. I feel like I am in a dream, floating through some mysterious other world…

Greg Burgess
MPH Environmental Health, Infectious Disease Control
University of Minnesota

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