Swerving roads & high mountains greeted us as we drove in Lofoten. It was beautiful & the end of the road beckoned with one more ferry to the outer islands. 

The high season starts next week but I am grateful for the snow up to my knees & an amazing view in djevelporten in Svolvaer. 

Lofoten is a diamond in the rough I hope it stays that way & doesn’t become Iceland. Overrun & crowded & garbage as a thank you. 

I purposely didn’t include pictures of Lofoten here. Guess you’ll just have to image search & come see the beauty yourself. 

Bright side of life. Is one of my favorite Monty Python lyrics. That’s how I’ve been feeling lately. Things have become rich with ideas & possibilities. 

The sun is only down for a few hours a night. I’ve been wearing thinner socks because the daytime temperature is 45 degrees!! A whole 45. Maybe soon I can wear sandals in July??

Although the threat of snow still looms, I hope it won’t stick. There’s signs of spring everywhere. People are cleaning windows, the gravel from the winter is slowly disappearing. People are wearing skirts with pretty tights & people are wearing sneakers. Spring!! 

Also there’s gifts in the mail & surprises in store with some great things coming up. Onward & upward. 

I don’t know what to write, my mind is awe of what is happening globally. As a history major in college what is happening is history on repeat. Nixon, LBJ comes to mind. They were racists with an agenda. 

I thought the last 2 years we had come really far, globally & socially. Turns out our clocks have moved closer to doomsday by a mere long 30 seconds. News has become “fake” & misogynistic bloggers with Twitter accounts hacked the election by misrepresenting the facts. 

There are now as many protests as there were during the Vietnam War. People with legitimate visas are being discriminated against because of religion, sounds like World War II to me. 

We’re back tracking at a rapid pace & the foundation that America was founded on is being erroded. The alt right has gained momentum it hasn’t had since the 1930’s. Racism, facism & the powerful elite claim they are taking back their countries from people fleeing rubble with nothing left to stay for. 

I am scared of what the future holds, people of all colors have a voice & by marginalizing them we will turn the world upside down.

It will be a financial doomsday of the likes no one has ever seen & no country will be immune or above it. The start of this has already begun in America, soon it will spread, the question is only how long will it take for the world to become a refugee?