We all woke up groggy because on the first night at hotel Loftleider, we were all kindly treated to prank morning calls every hour on the hour beginning at 3am, that is, until some of us unplugged the phones.

Our first stop was Kerio, a huge volcanic crater that's filled with an eerie-blue lake in the summertime. Gullfoss, a 105ft high waterfall that powerfully empties into a gorge, looked deceptively tame from afar, but is anything but from up close. The Geysers at Geysir is one of the truly must-sees of Iceland. These geysers is one of only three other places in the world (Siberia, New Zealand, Yellowstone) to have such active geothermal geysers, of which, Stokkur is one of the most active (erupting every few minutes) and highest, spouting up to 100ft in the air.

At this point, the adventure got wild. With our supertrucks, we ventured off the beaten path over hills, on rock-shrewn paths, and even through a river to begin out snowmobiling and dogsledding rides. One of the unique things about Iceland is its weather. There are no weather broadcasts, and no one ever asks for the weather. That's because the weather changes several times on any given day. This was no more apparent than when we were snowmobiling; sun changed to rain, to snow, back to sun, and then finally to hail, and all in a two hour span.