Dates: 13 June 2019 - 19 June 2019Distance: 370 milesElevation Gain: 21749 feetAverage Min Temp While Riding: 38.2F0 Mile Days: 0Nights Spent Indoors/Outdoors: 0/7 I was on my bike at 6:30pm with a renewed excitement to get moving. I needed to get to Nordkapp by the solstice so that I could be back in Tromsø in time to meet my friend for a sauna. This may sound silly but sweat bathing…
Wind, cold, or rain. Pick two. That's Norway. I came prepared for bad weather. I have been prepared for bad weather. It's still a little disheartening when the locals tell you that this is unseasonably bad weather. I have yet to experience wind, cold, and rain at once for more than a minute or two. When this happens the rain feels like hail against my exposed cheeks and ears but it…
Dates: 3 June 2019 - 13 June 2019Distance: 311 milesElevation Gain: 16122 feetAverage Min Temp While Riding: 45.7F0 Mile Days: 1Nights Spent Indoors/Outdoors: 3/7 A giant postcard perfect beach all to myself I've heard from several travel writers and friends who travel a lot that Lofoten is stunning and one of the greatest places they've been. They undersold it. There are no crowds on Arctic beaches I hopped on the ferry…
Leaving the harbor at Bodø The white spotted dorsal fin of the mountain porpoises through the skyline of Bodø as we leave the harbor. I felt some sadness as I left those mountains that I could only occasionally see but always feel, whose presence I outwardly cursed while inwardly admiring. Only as the ferry motors away from land on a clear day can I see how far the mountains extend, how…
After spending my first day in Norway sleeping, I roll out of bed and down the hill to the National Day parade. Norwegians are dressed up in their finest traditional clothes or their best suits, everyone is waving a flag, and the sound of a drum corps echos throughout the city. Everyone is out. I hear a Swede complain that Norway is just so much more crowded than where she lives.…