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      <image:caption>Icelandic Association for Search and Rescue vehicles are outfitted to handle any terrain. I can totally see a fictionalized ICE-SAR volunteer coming to the rescue and then sticking around to help solve the crime.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>MANY THANKS to my husband Bill for being a good sport in all my capers. And to our good friends and fellow travelers, AV and GP, for sharing in this adventure as well as supplying several of these photos.</image:caption>
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