Hi Gordo!
-Did you see me wave; it was in a hairpin?
Neh, I'm kidding - I was'nt there.
Last time I was at Gaularfjell (you have a pic of a fun road here) I was a pillon on Knut's K100. We rode it up, and at the top Knut stopped and pinched my leg, and I woke up. I was sleeping!
A good thing being a pillon is to sleep when you want. A bad thing is to miss the fun!
Well, when we took the ferry from Stavanger to Lysebotn (your picture are showing a walley and some water), and we rode up the funny road, I was not sleeping! It was my first hairpins riding my bike, my F650CS Scarver.
Fun!
But I must say I was happy I was riding up, and not down - it's hard to go backwards uphill when you meet a bus - even for a little Scarver and a girl with long legs!
The animals on the road:
It was reindeers.
Elk/moose do not do that; they often cross the road, one by one, often a mother and two kids. But not like in your picture, and they was too small, to skinny, and had too short legs to be elks.
The sausages I served at Hograost was one made of 20% elk. And one made of 20% reindeer. Both had some meat from horse inside too. (I hope horselovers forgive me!)
And your picture of the road in Sweden, maaaaaaany kilometres of boring road and landskape; Well, I have told you guys here before; Sweden is boring! Specially north of Sweden - wery boring! It's small trees, bushes, ponds, mosquitoes, and good tarmac, and nothing is happening..... But if you want to get fast from Nordkapp and down to Trondheim, it is OK.
I have been a passanger in a car, driving from Oslo to Vadsø (north and east of Kirkenes, Finnmark, ca.2000 kilometres) a few times. Once, when there was 3 drivers, me (wery sick in my stommack - I had to go out of the car several times and leave something smelly and brown in the ditch) and a teenager (5 in an old Corolla, two doors!); if I remember it correctly we made it in about 30 hours. We only wanted to go fast from Vadsø to Oslo, so Sweden was perfect that day (and night, and the following morning...).
The only fun we had was up north in Sweden, we had a stop for 5 minutes, and the teenager wanted to test some fireworks. BANG and the road was not empty; there was 15-20 confused reindeers! Poor animals, I guess it was the first time they heard fireworks.
And the weather you had; typical! You never know how the weather are the next day, two hours ride from where you felt to sleep!
Bring friends and come back, Gordo!
Liv.
-Did you see me wave; it was in a hairpin?
Neh, I'm kidding - I was'nt there.
Last time I was at Gaularfjell (you have a pic of a fun road here) I was a pillon on Knut's K100. We rode it up, and at the top Knut stopped and pinched my leg, and I woke up. I was sleeping!
A good thing being a pillon is to sleep when you want. A bad thing is to miss the fun!
Well, when we took the ferry from Stavanger to Lysebotn (your picture are showing a walley and some water), and we rode up the funny road, I was not sleeping! It was my first hairpins riding my bike, my F650CS Scarver.
Fun!But I must say I was happy I was riding up, and not down - it's hard to go backwards uphill when you meet a bus - even for a little Scarver and a girl with long legs!
The animals on the road:
It was reindeers.
Elk/moose do not do that; they often cross the road, one by one, often a mother and two kids. But not like in your picture, and they was too small, to skinny, and had too short legs to be elks.
The sausages I served at Hograost was one made of 20% elk. And one made of 20% reindeer. Both had some meat from horse inside too. (I hope horselovers forgive me!)
And your picture of the road in Sweden, maaaaaaany kilometres of boring road and landskape; Well, I have told you guys here before; Sweden is boring! Specially north of Sweden - wery boring! It's small trees, bushes, ponds, mosquitoes, and good tarmac, and nothing is happening..... But if you want to get fast from Nordkapp and down to Trondheim, it is OK.
I have been a passanger in a car, driving from Oslo to Vadsø (north and east of Kirkenes, Finnmark, ca.2000 kilometres) a few times. Once, when there was 3 drivers, me (wery sick in my stommack - I had to go out of the car several times and leave something smelly and brown in the ditch) and a teenager (5 in an old Corolla, two doors!); if I remember it correctly we made it in about 30 hours. We only wanted to go fast from Vadsø to Oslo, so Sweden was perfect that day (and night, and the following morning...).
The only fun we had was up north in Sweden, we had a stop for 5 minutes, and the teenager wanted to test some fireworks. BANG and the road was not empty; there was 15-20 confused reindeers! Poor animals, I guess it was the first time they heard fireworks.
And the weather you had; typical! You never know how the weather are the next day, two hours ride from where you felt to sleep!
Bring friends and come back, Gordo!
Liv.
