More lava fields...

The building to the far right in the photo is the Cowshed Cafe. After driving through lava fields all morning in the mist and rain with temperatures hovering around 40, the blue skies above this farm that sits on a lake looked very, very appealing. It has a farm to table restaurant and features lamb (the menu says they have 140 sheep but I had lamb shank with rhubarb jam the way the Icelanders like it so I suppose they now only have 139). John had beef goulash from the beef they raise. And my salad had mozzarella they make at their dairy. You have a choice of a table looking into the barn where the dairy cows are (there's a window between) or a table overlooking the lake. Oh yes, the photo is the back road to the place. I was just about to open the gate so we could drive through.

Waddling out of lunch we drove the short distance to the hot baths for a little rejuvenation.

According to a Denver couple we met while soaking, Amazon is going to Denver. Did you read it here first?

This photo is for you Becky. Around the year 1,000, the designated lawmaker had to decide what religion Iceland was going to be. He meditated on it for a day and a night and then decided on Christianity. Gathering up the carvings of the pagan Norse gods, he threw them into these falls now known as Godafoss (translated as waterfall of the gods). One might think there would be a church nearby, but no. There's only a gas station. It does, however, have restrooms for which many a traveler, I'm sure, has been extremely thankful as restrooms are very few and mighty far between!