When we were in Iceland, two summers ago, I booked a tour with a group that was called, like, Super Jeep Tour Company. And they — the tours are literally on like super Jeeps, souped up Jeeps — or in my case, it turns out it was a Ford truck — but they’re pumped up. They have like an extended passenger cab. They have huge wheels and they are set so that they can be like inflated or deflated, depending on the terrain. And they do this so that you can go up on glaciers and other places and go like off-roading. So we booked this tour and when we were — it was our very first day in Iceland and the way Reykjavik handles all of the many, many, many tour companies and buses that come through is that they have specially appointed bus stops throughout the city where buses can come and pick up tourists. You know, like, tour buses can come.
And so as we’re waiting at our assigned stop which fortunately was right across, like, the street from our hotel, so very convenient, I kept seeing all of these tour buses pull up. And sometimes they would have signs in the window that were like easy for you to figure out who they were picking up for, but not all of them did. And I found myself like concerned that we would somehow, like, not recognize our driver or our vehicle. Um, you know, or we would get on the wrong, you know, bus or whatever, I was gonna have to, like, ask everybody. So I’m, you know, just being my usual kind of nervous self, like looking at every bus that comes by and stops. And then this big car, this big truck turns the corner and I started to laugh because I was like, “I don’t know what I think I was worried about, but that is obviously for us. This is obviously our Super Jeep tour.”
Which, as I said, it was not in fact actually a Jeep brand, it was Ford. But it was huge. Like, you practically needed a ladder to get up into the seat. I mean, you did — I did have to, like — it was basically climbing up, you know, like there was, like, a running board and then, like, another thing and I’d get up and need to grab the — anyway. But it was, like, so much fun.