Figure 8 On A Bike

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” - Philip Dick Camping at Nordkapp, we got our first experience of sleeping outdoors with the midnight sun. All those pesky, dark rain clouds had decided to leave, so at 3 AM it was bright and hot and we both woke up and sat around for a while. I ate a few cookies so that my body could keep making quadracep muscles. After a few more hours of fitful “rest”, we finally called it and got up to make breakfast and break camp. Our breakfast pastries were quite good, but the sugar-free lemon tea tasted like poison (we couldn’t brew our own due to the missing stove). Grocery shopping in a new country is always a guessing game; you win some and lose some. Nordkapp All the same, I was feeling much better than the previous day, so we went back to the visitor center and posed for a photo with the monument at this edge of the world. From Cabo Froward to Nordkapp, and many places in between, Susan and I’s time toge...

Well… that’s not quite right. The sun is always up in Honningsvåg, but the amount of actual sunshine varies quite a bit. We woke up at the hostel to a rich blue sky dotted with a few clouds. Since we paid for breakfast, Susan got the chance to try out all the tubes of food goo (her favorite was the “one with a fish on it”), and then we lugged our boxes outside to see if we could manage to assemble the bikes. Assembling the bikes outside the hostel