Góðo Ferð! (Bon Voyage in Icelandic)
VPPA member, Anne Companion, M. Photog., CPP, posted an inquiry on our VPPA Facebook page last year looking for photographers who were interested in visiting Iceland within the next year. Today, she and eight others are fulfilling that dream. Anne; “Buck” Buckwalter, and his girlfriend, Caitlan Scheanwald; Poppy Durham and her husband, Jeff; Valery Logan, Gwen Meehan, and Mary Lynne Wolfe set out on the evening of September 8 from Dulles airport on a 10-day circumnavigation of Iceland via what is called the “Ring Road.”
The trip was rooted in Anne’s dream of an Icelandic adventure she says she has harbored for many years. Once she posted her 2022 Facebook inquiry and got an enthusiastic response, she moved the interested group to “Virginians in Iceland” on Facebook and plans began in earnest. Six VPPA members in January 2023 committed by splitting the required Airbnb deposits along the route, and the group began sorting through options and holding Zoom™ meetings to finalize details. Stay tuned for more “cool” stories from the “land of the ice and snow” (as labeled by Robert Plant, lead singer for Led Zeppelin, in the opening line from “The Immigrant Song” written about their 1970 concert in Iceland).