New year, New market

HOLY MOLY!!!
It is summer of 2011 already and time to get ready for the market in Icelnad again!
Well, actually I booked my airline tickets in January, before the prices shot up due to the oil...
I am planning a couple new bits of story magic to take for the Icelanders, with luck I have them long enough. Last year they said my stories were all too short! Imagine that, an audience with an attention span. In this day and age. Well done Icelanders!
I will also be taking a few things to share about working with leather in the "western" style, tooling and such. I see they have a new plant in the north of the country (probably won't get there this trip) that makes fish leather. I saw a bit of fish leather last year and it is very nice, an interesting surface. Many possible projects come to mind.

It is a hope that one year I will be able to make a little "Market circle" trip and go to the markets in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Iceland, one after the other, badically, most of a summer as a Viking! There are some logistical issues with tentage and such, but nothing too insurmountable. I think the key is to be prepared to wear the viking clothes 24/7, with maybe only a single set of 21st century stuff for laundry day, or passing a customs point. The research into the matter will continue this summer.

Just a late bloomer, as so many of my friends from high school have already been to a number of other countries, I guess I will simply tell myself that waiting means I will enjoy it more, and have a differnt level of respect and appreciation than had I gone as a punk kid out of high school. Not that I would have spent the money on it had I even had that much money, still cheap these days too!

On the plus side, I will get to see New York, the airport at least this trip, another state I have never been to. I am getting around these days, and I mena that in a good way.