Byline: LISA MARIE PANE Associated Press
GRINDAVIK, Iceland -- Mounds of lava rocks line a narrow passageway, leading from the parking lot to the front door, beckoning me to the misty, soothing waters of the Blue Lagoon spa.
I'd last visited this geothermal oasis in 1998, and three years later, I barely recognized the place.
After a $5 million renovation, it was cleaner, more modern and the entrance was open and spacious -- less of a dank cavern and offering more of the feel of an embracing solarium.
The Blue Lagoon came to be in the mid-1970s, when some communities on Iceland's Reykjanes peninsula -- in the southwestern part of the island -- sought to harness heat generated by the geothermal area.
So as a power plant hums away in the distance, travelers these days flock to …
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