Different perspectives

It is quite common for the locals - all over the world - to be almost totally ignorant of the "wonders" the foreign traveller realizes. And often it only after one has travelled to distant places, that one finds out, how unique one´s own backyard really can be. Rivercrossing as a kid, by rowing, wading, riding a horse - or driving a tractor: learning first hand about the danger involved as well as the feeling of relief after just making it across safely. Until it is just like another day at the office. For the avarage traveller to Iceland, river crossing by foot may have somewhat different impact, with muddy glacier-water flowing mid-thigh high, threatening to take the person with backpack and all and send with the ice cold current down the river, all the way to the coast. Same with crossing a glacier - outlet. Can you imagin the sensation when you have been walking for three hours on the glacier, to see only glacier ahead and only glacier to the right - and only glacier to the left? For the one who has not "been there, done that", I can imagin, that such a walk might be a memorable one.