I landed there last Sunday on my way back from Munich. Lots of hots springs to soak in after the race! I'm still interested!

Follow up to my response to Egad, registration is now open and 61 euros till march 15 then climbs at intervals to 88euros just before the race.   Icelandicair has flights from Boston for about 350US much better then Delta at a grand.  As before, Allycia and I are in if everyone else is.

No different then lodging anywhere else, how cheap or expensive to you want. You can hostel for 5 bucks a night to a suite for 2k.  Jump on the website, click on travel and tourism tab, look at accommodations under the tourism link and select the capital area. There are a bunch of options including camping, hostels, group stuff etc not just hotels but the hotels are reasonable too, seems equal to prices for Washington.  The hotels seem to be booking fact but the guest houses might be the way to make it work too, they seem to be about 100 a night.

So is it official? Are we heading there as a group or will it just be a few of us?  Either way, Cremer is in, I'll register while out at work this trip in the next week or so.

Cremer- We should lookat flights and hotels and all and see about trying to book stuff together.

Hey guys, as much as it hurts me to write this, as I think most of you know by now we have been approved, loan signed and we are building our house this year.  With all the expense this incurs I can't possible expect Allycia to support me in going especially since we both wanted to go.   The price of two airfares, registration, food, hotel etc equals money that we can put toward any of a thousand things we are trying to pay for out of pocket to help reduce total loan value in the end.

Hope you you all understand and I am totally upset that it is i eland I have to miss. I loved it there and do want to make it back sometime in the future as it is a great place.

Understandable yes but still depressing on the running part but exciting on the house building part. Mixed emotions.

Update...

Kim and I will be flying Iceland Air. Flight FI632 leaving Boston at 8:25 p.m. on Monday August 18'th. Returning on flight FI633 leaving Iceland at 5:25 p.m. on Tuesday August 26'th. We wanted to stay about a week and those were the cheapest days/times to travel.

As of this moment it appears that we'll be staying at this place...

http://houseofspirits101.com/

But it isn't quite set in stone yet. They aren't set up to book reservations online so I'm currently emailing back and forth with the proprietor. I'd say it's extremely likely that it's going to be the place, though.

Now confirmed, that's officially where Kim and I are staying.

It's on.