well, it’s sunday & we spent the usual way. slept in, made breakfast & hung some prints up in the living room. trying to make it more like home although it’s been a transition from small town to norway’s second largest city.

we went for a 3 hour hike behind our apartment yesterday, we got rained on but only briefly. when we left the city center however we where dosed to the bone. really good downpour that lasted a good hour & something.

no more of that spit i got to used to in Seattle, here it pours to the point that i need to invest in a new jacket. see ya gore tex. time to invest in a real raincoat.

i am working @ the bicycle champoinship in a few days & am really nervous. i have to get to one side of Bergen to the other in a 2 hours. i hope i can make it?

other than that the rest of the month looks busy. i just hope i get a chance to tell you how the championship was.

we drove for 3 days from Northern Norway & saw plenty of interesting things. we stopped by the Arctic circle center & aired out the dog. we found a smashing bakery in a small town with a stavkyrke.

we experienced tiny roads and beautiful sites over Sognefjellet & even managed to take a ferries that operate as part of the highway. meeting some really cool people along the way.

we arrived in Bergen close to midnight & missed the beauitful drive in. this weekend we went exploring up the mountain behind our apartment & got to see some fabulous views.

i feel spoiled by american highways after the drive we just took, what we drove on was narrow & scary especially when we encountered on coming trucks. we met a cow on the way down the mountain that wanted to say hello & set off all the parking & accident censors in the car.

we slept in some really crowded hotels on the way down but got see some great small towns & meet fascinating people. i feel lucky & Grateful that we didn’t have any accidents just a cow that pissed off Flekk but had us laughing for a good while afterwards.

now it’s on to new things & experiences in the city.

we are on the move again. this time to a place i have never been. makes me nervous as i have settled into a routine above the Arctic circle. the Winter was long & summer lasted a week. the sun didn’t set for a while but it was so grey out that it didn’t matter. so onward & upward.

we leave in a week by car & will drive cross country with the four legged creature in the back. clothes for a week & some food. i am excited & nervous as i have never been in the city we are moving to. i am looking forward to seeing the other parts of the country. i am looking forward to driving thru some places & others not. Wild bison comes to mind.

but it should be interesting & i am looking forward to seeing the coffee culture there. it will be weird without the mountains or the snow. i am looking forward to the new places to check out & explore. it won’t get as cold either which will be nice. here comes the RAIN.