Ah, who am I kidding. Here are some more pictures:
On top of the world – again
Close to the North Cape
On the way back from the North Cape
Even Sweden has some epic places
Stekenjokk
Stekenjokk and the Boyfriend
Meeting the locals
My trusty (and slightly dirty) ape on gravel
Flatruet – one of the highest roads in Sweden
Just about 10 days left until our three-week-trip to Norway and Sweden. Equipment purchased, packing tested (mostly, at least), planned the first four days. We have a room booked at the Rica Seilet Hotel in Molde for night #4, so we needed to make sure we get there in time. After that, not much is planned. A 10′000 km service is scheduled for my trusty Ape in Trondheim and the boyfriend will probably have his service done at the same time, but that’s about it. No hotels, no routes, no schedules to keep.
We do have a map (digital, so far) with interesting bits and pieces of routes and alike jotted down, but nothing is decided. The whole not-planning-thing has become a bit easier for both of us I think. Easter, we went on a bike trip with two friends for three days in southern Sweden. Neither the boyfriend nor I had anything to do with the planning which is rather unusual for us. And guess what, it worked out great!
Depending on how often free Wifi can be found, I’ll try to update our current position, but don’t expect anything too frequent.
I really need to update my blog header.
The boyfriend and I are planning a three week motorcycle trip through Norway and Sweden this summer and have been looking forward to it all winter. Still are, actually, since the roads here are still filled with slush and ice, meaning our trusted bikes are unfortunately still safely tucked away in their hibernation place.
Norway promises to be great fun; embarrassing as it is to admit, I’ve never been there before, even though I’ve been living in Sweden on and off for about ten years now. Pictures of the landscape are simply amazing, fjords, mountains, and emptiness. I can’t wait to experience it, especially from the back of a bike. The plan is to drive from Stockholm to Oslo, from there up along the coast all the way to the North Cape and back down to Stockholm through inland Sweden. Since this will be out first long motorcycle trip we don’t really know what to expect when it comes to mileage per day (and plenty of other things!), so we might not actually make it all the way to the North Cape, but that is the plan for now.
Some pictures of the scenery via turistveg.no (great site!).
Since Norway seems to be one of the most expensive countries in the world (I kid you not), a lot of focus will be on how to minimize travel costs. We’re planning on staying in hyttor (cabins) most maybe half of the time and otherwise just camp in the middle of nowhere. We’re a bit worried that it might be too cold to camp comfortably further north, but we’ll see how it works out when we get there.
“We’ll see how it goes” or “it will all work out somehow” is actually a bit of the guideline for this trip as both the boyfriend and I, as anyone who knows us will tell you, have a tendency to plan things meticulously down to the last detail. Control freaks that we are, we don’t really handle spontaneity very well and are constantly bewildered by people’s (from our point of view) lax attitude towards planning when travelling. We’re especially baffled by the fact that everything really does seem to work out for them in the end, despite of them not having thought through everything beforehand.
So in order to control our inner urge to.. err.. control things, we’ve decided to not plan every detail of this trip. This is actually harder than it sounds as I have to continuously stop myself from planning detailed routes and looking up all available camping places and gas stations along the way.