1.  Everyone speaks English, eliminating the need for me to have to learn a troublesome new language.  And believe me, Icelandic is TROUBLESOME.  I had a hard time even picking up the easy stuff like “How are you?”

2.  Beautiful women with the best accents.  Icelandic girls have a way of saying “yeah?” after everything you say.  It’s like the equivalent of “Go on..” and I can’t possibly duplicate it in the written form, but it is the quirkiest cutest fucking thing in the world.  It makes my head spin.  Bjork does it all the time if you listen to her interviews.  (For an example, watch this really weird Space Ghost episode at 5:08.)

3.  Epic views.  There are so many epic views and things to see in the countryside of Iceland that you start being an elitist about it.  If you stopped for everything to take pictures, you’d never make it around the country, so you have to be like “Oh, that waterfall is cool.. but is it THAT cool?”  When you can be an elitist about waterfalls, that is some next level epic shit.

4.  Iceland’s most popular beer is called Viking.  VIKING.  It’s the beer you shotgun when you’re standing on top of a glacier, looking across your kingdom, as beerspray hits your epic viking conquerer beard.  Makes PBR looks like Mike’s Hard Lemonade.

5.  Icelandic music.  Something about this weird little country produces amazing homegrown music.  For a country so small, there is a disproportionate amount of great music coming out of this little island.  I can get down with awesome music.  Bjork and Sigur Ros are really just the tip of the iceberg (pun somewhat intended).