Iceland Visit 2024 Day 4

Documenting August 19, 2024.

Today we say goodbye to our apartment and Iceland.

A gray corrugated-metal Reykjavik townhouse with a pitched roof, white-trimmed windows, hanging flower baskets, and rooftop TV antennas, next to a red-brick building on a sunny street with a lone person walking on the sidewalk under a clear blue sky

As mentioned a few days ago, Iceland is lovely but we’re ready to be home. There’s a logic to wanting to stay in Iceland a few more days after getting off a ship here: we’re already here, it’d be a shame to squander the opportunity. But we’re all tired and still a little sick and homesick and kind of cold and it doesn’t help that the weather in Holly Springs is warm and sunny.

Checkout is 11am and our car to the airport will pick us up at that time. Our flight isn’t until 4:45p. I’m not excited about finding ways to kill 4 hours at the airport, but I’m even less excited about the logistics of trying to find some other way to occupy that time… with luggage in tow. So: we wait.

Exterior of the Icelandic airport terminal with its distinctive sawtooth glass-and-steel roofline against a clear blue sky, with a blue Isavia 'Car rental pick up' directional sign and a glass booth beside red safety barriers on the paved forecourt

Interior concourse of the Icelandic airport with a slatted metal ceiling, travelers walking with luggage, a blue 'Information / Upplýsingar' sign with flight display boards on the right, and Rowan in a black hoodie seated in the foreground looking at the camera (confusing perspective on the lady in this photo)

A girl in a gray sweatshirt and black pants sits on a curved wooden airport bench absorbed in her phone, a pink backpack with a plush toy beside her, in front of duty-free shops labeled Icelandic Liquor, Icelandic Cosmetics, and Blue Lagoon Iceland

Back in RDU, Global Entry was a breeze. We had a not-great Uber experience but I won’t bore you with that. The house was in great shape when we arrived, and you’d hardly know we were gone.

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