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...Well, we like Sylvester Stallone movies, just because he's funny and they're usually good stories. They're just [adopts Stallone voice] "good action flicks." Some of the best times we've had are because of being in a band. Once, we went to Iceland and we got to go to these volcanic hot springs. We've also been to LA. You know, the traveling stuff is where most of the fun is. It's not like we play Jenga or Scrabble...
...long, the silver helicopter swooped and hovered over the waters around Heimaey, one of southern Iceland's volcanic Westman Islands. Three small boats tacked around the islands like erratic beetles, changing direction abruptly, doubling back on themselves, then spending long periods in one spot. For the uninitiated, it was hard to make out what was going on. A drug-smuggling bust? A search-and-rescue operation? The filming of the next James Bond movie? The reality was odder still: all these humans were scurrying around in an effort to take a killer whale for an ocean walk and find...
...September 1998, Keiko took another long flight, this time to Iceland, where he quickly adapted to life just below the Arctic Circle. His new pool was the size of a soccer field, fenced off within beautiful Klettsvik Bay. After two storm-lashed winters, Keiko graduated to the bay, 20 times the area of his pen and closed off with a 850-ft.-long barrier net. To encourage him to explore, his trainers built a large slingshot, which sent fish out 50 yds. in all directions. They took him on training swims behind a boat to build up his stamina...
Finding the settlement turned out to be absurdly easy. When the Ingstads asked the locals if there were any odd ruins in the area, they were taken to a place known as "the Indian camp." They immediately recognized the grass-covered ridges as Viking-era ruins like those in Iceland and Greenland...
...virtually everyone's profits from the export of furs and ivory. Material success apparently did not keep Erik and his family content, though; they undoubtedly heard of a voyage by a captain named Bjarni Herjolfsson, who had been blown off course while en route to Greenland from Iceland. After drifting for many days, Bjarni spotted a forested land. But instead of investigating this unknown territory, he turned back and reached Greenland...