he just kept driving. laugavegur in reykjavik. instead he typed laugarvegur, the extra r took six hours through steep mountains and icy paths to a house in a small town on the island's northern tip. >> i rang the door. the woman answers. she starts laughing at me. >> reporter: that woman found him a place to stay not before posting the story on facebook. by the following morning, he was town legend. by the time he reached reykjavik he was an island celebrity being stopped in the streets. nicknamed the lost tourist at bars. he graced the front page of the country's paper and landed himself on tv. he even got lost again while heading to the famous blue lagoon. he learned his lesson this time and interrupted a conference. >> i barged in. asking for directions because the gps got me lost. they asked me are you the guy that got lost and went up north? >> sound like you are terrible >> i have a really good sense of direction in america. but over here it is just weird. >> reporter: suppose to fly home to new jersey. but now feels so welc

noel was looking for a hotel on laugavegur street, in the island's capital reykjavik. instead he typed "laugarvegur." that extra "r" took him nearly six hours through steep mountains and icy paths to a house in a small town on the island's northern tip. >> i ring the door, and the woman answers, and she starts laughing at me. >> reporter: that woman found noel a place to stay, but not before posting the story on facebook. by the following morning, noel was town legend. by the time he reached reykjavik, he was an island celebrity, being stopped on the street, nicknamed "the lost tourist" at bars. he graced the front page of the country's paper, and landed himself on tv. he even got lost, again, while heading to the famous blue lagoon. he learned his lesson this time, and interrupted a conference. >> i just barged in there, asking for directions because the g.p.s. got me lost. and when they asked me, "are you all the way up north?" >> reporter: noel, it sound like you're really terrible at directions. >> i have a really good sense of direction in america , but over here,

. >> thomas: reykjavik, the summit. today there's a strong school of thought that argues that reykjavik was what won the cold war. >> evan: right. >> thomas: but at the time it's perceived of something of a fiasco, something that just adds to reagan's troubles. >> evan: right. >> thomas: and so it's a bad year. and the country is experiencing this panoply of new social ills from crack to homelessness to aids and the administration seems somewhat out of gas. the president is aging. >> evan: right. >> thomas: and he's a bit beset. but in particular, reagan himself -- i mean, whether you liked him or disliked him, it was a very consequential presidency. it was a big presidency, transformative. >> evan: well, in fact, we sit here today, you and i, a day before the republican presidential debate about the reagan library. this man has been canonized, deified. ronald reagan is the gold standard, the thing everybody running for office on the republican side, at least, aspires to. >> thomas: yeah. >> evan: so as a character, cou

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, reykjavik to boston, boston amtrak down here. >> seth: now -- so we were texting during your amtrak. because you will admit -- how much do you know about >> fred: i think very little to none. >> seth: little to none. [ light laughter ] and you were on a train from boston to new york last night during the afc championship game and you texted me and asked why are all the people on the train going crazy? [ laughter ] >> fred: well, it was like all of a sudden i just heard this dead silence and then a huge cheer and then dead silence for a much longer time. [ laughter ] and i really didn't know what playoff it was. i didn't know what sport it was. [ light laughter ] but could tell because it was boston. i was like this has to do with boston. >> seth: yes. >> this has something to do with boston. [ light laughter ] >> seth: you were a real sherlock homes. you deduced it. [ laughter ] >> fred: but then i thought maybe it's because everyone's just happy that they're all together. you know what i mean? [ laughter ] like, maybe they're all like, oh, we're on a train -- [ laughter ] hooray. [

by the time he reached reykjavik, he was an island celebrity, being stopped met street, nicknamed "the lost tourist "at bars. he graced the front page of the country's paper, and landed himself on tv. he even got lost again while lagoon. he learned his lesson this time, and interrupted a conference. >> i just barged in there asking g.p.s. got me lost. and when they asked me, "are you the guy that got lost and went all the way up north?" >> reporter: noel, it sound directions. >> i have a really good sense of direction in america, but over here, it's just weird. >> reporter: noel was supposed to fly home to new jersey tonight, but now feels so welcomed, he's decided to extend his stay. >> i have discovered a lot of things about myself. >> reporter: hopefully when he does return, his sense of direction is better on the jersey turnpike. jonathan vigliotti, cbs news, london. >> axelrod: and that's the cbs evening news for tonight. i'm jim axelrod in new york, and for all of us here at cbs news, thanks for joining us, and good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by