Our much anticipated Iceland adventure is upon us! And an adventure is exactly how the trip has begun. Our final round travel buddies ended up being me, KMJ, JaSON, Ambrose and Ambrose’s parents, Frank and Tammy. Despite living in three different cities, we were all on the same flight both to and from, are all pretty well traveled and all very flexible with “must sees” while in Iceland. An easy group to travel with.

Step 1. Get to Iceland.
Step 2. Enjoy!

Step 1 got tricky when in jest I asked everyone in the car, “Did everyone call their credit cards?” and “Does everyone have their passports?” “Uh Oooh” is what came from Ambrose’s mouth. I think I asked him five times if he was really serious. He was.

The crappy thing about this is Ambrose lives in San Diego. It’s not like we could turn the car around, grab it from home and head back. I was sure he’d be fine though as I figured there had to be procedures for lost/stolen passports. Their procedure happens to be “You have to have a passport or you don’t go.” Luckily, Ambrose’s sister lives in San Diego too and was able to get his passport on a Southwest flight (for $77) and he will hop on the next flight out, Sunday. What stinks is we are all in the Westfjords right now, the part of the trip Ambrose planned and was looking most forward to.

Lesson learned. Next time, don’t ask, just run for the gate and hope you don’t get held in customs on the other end! See you in Reykjavik, Ambrose!