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Sunday, January 12, 2014

#2: friends from Iceland

 I love meeting new people. A few days ago we met a couple from Iceland and learned much about their country.  Leif Erickson discovered it around 900 AD, and today all native Icelanders can trace their ancestry to that beginning.  They even have an app on their phones that they can type in a name and it will show them how they are related to one another.  Most of the 300,000 Icelanders are related within less than 9 generations.  Their heat and electricity is geothermal and it cost about $40 per month for both.  I asked if many move away and they smiled and said, "If they do, they come back."