We woke around 6am and it was super quiet - Brad slept great, Suzanne just okay. We cleaned up, got dressed, and hit the road – all without leaving the comfort of the camper van! 😜
We noticed the clouds forming on our drive the day before, and today looked to be rainy and overcast. When we looked at the weather forecast - everywhere in Norway – was predicted 100% chance of rain for the next 7 - 10 days – everyday & all day. So we spent first hour of driving talking about where to go….Tromso? Alta? Lofoten Islands? We decided to continue north and drive along the Kystriksveien Coastal Route – one of the 18 Norwegian Scenic Routes. We originally thought that we would drive this on way back from the far north, but with the weather and not even sure we want to go to Tromso or Alta, we decided to do it now.
Views along the drive.......
After a while, we stopped for breakfast (our food). This would
eventually be how we started most mornings – wake up, make tea/coffee, drive
for an hour or so, then pull-over someplace and make breakfast in the rig. (By “making
breakfast,” we mean bread and peanut butter or yoghurt and granola.) We also got gas (gas means diesel) this morning
- looks like $200 to fill the tank. Yowza!
More driving views.......
Around 9am, we stopped at another gas station to fill our five
liter water bottle - even though we have a freshwater tank, we can’t be sure
that it was filled with potable water from a drinking hose, so we bought a five
liter bottle of water yesterday and will fill along the way. Basically, all we
pretty much would do (along with lots of other people), is bring our water
bottle into a place – gas station, for example – which are different there –
they have small grocery stores and even restaurants – and ask the person behind
the counter to fill it with fresh water. They would, we’d say, “tusen takk” (literally:
a thousand thanks) and be on our merry way.
By 10am we were both exhausted - probably due to jet lag. We
decided to pull over in parking lot, crawl into our bed, and crash. We woke
about an hour later and felt much better. We grabbed some lunch and kept
driving.
There are waterfalls all over Norway......
We drove all afternoon and took our first ferry. As it goes, the first ferry (and the couple after) were super fun….by ferry #10, we were old hands and the excitement waned a bit, though it was still quite a unique way to travel most days.
Brad turning off the propane - have to do that at every ferry crossing.
We were hungry again and tried to find dinner. We drove to one restaurant which was a bust and in the middle of nowhere on multi-potholed road. Well, while trying to avoid a pothole, Brad drove too far to the right and we went off the side of the road into a small ditch….. just a wee bit. We thought we were stuck for a while and were getting close to calling for an emergency service, but Brad was able to get us out of the ditch and off we went……Nope - no pictures! 😏
Eventually we found a place and had a pizza dinner – we thought we were ordering a Margherita pizza and Caesar salad, but nope….it was a Caesar salad pizza. Huh.
We took one more ferry ride......
....and just a few kilometers down the road, we pulled over to a little pull-out around 7pm for the night. This is the view/experience that we knew we would enjoy by wild camping.
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