Things are happening...

Ok, just a short update on the Sondagsturen preparation...and some photos from the last few weeks! Who’d think that such a Sunday trip as this one would require so much preparation, but in the end all seems to go well. After New Year, I spent about 90 minutes in a huge Czech hypermarket together with my mum Jitka gathering food for 150 days.

The check-out lately used another 90 minutes to count it all up, and in the end I showed up a little late for a beer with Jirka, the polar dude. But that didn’t matter, since over that beer we agreed he’ll drive with me Praha-Oslo the following weekend, and booked a flight home for him… Little did we know that leaving Praha there’d be more snow than there ever was, and the whole Czech Republic was more or less on its knees because of the snowload. Good for us, at least there were no other cars around that night… And some 22 hours later we arrived in Drammen, to a pleasant -15 or so. Damn, why would I wanna spend time outside in this??

There followed the last week of work, busy at least until an important deadline on Wednesday. Wrapping up on Thursday and Friday (thanks for the cake!!), and by Friday night I was unemployed. By Saturday morning I was unemployed and hang-overed, but got quickly over that, mum was coming in the afternoon… And I can’t not mention that the party was hard-working, mixing up the 30kg chocolate, 40kg nuts, 30kg dried fruit “kose-pose”s (name it jager-snus or trail-mix if you prefer). Thanks especially Laura, David & Magdalena for the effort. And great India pics David, maybe I ought to head there instead…

But now the pulk is packed, after sorting out food into 11 depots (don’t worry Solveig, you just have 10 boxes, but the first depot is with me), each of approximately 14 days. Weighs a lot, food for 150 days. And were it one depo more, it wouldn’t have fit into the car. Oh well. And I even got some fantastic doggie food for Mr Glang, now I just need to figure out the details of how to get him to come to the wild…that adventure begins on Thursday when we’re heading up to Svalbard to meet the big fellow.

And for those interested in the long march, I plan to cycle out from Lindesnes Fyr Monday 25^th, and meet up with my mum at Ljøsland in the evening/night. The next day, we ought to head out with skis towards the north, hopefully reaching Haukeliseter within two weeks or so. Yep, simple as that. I’m very much looking forward to the simple life of skiing, eating and sleeping. The beauty of being on a skiing trip is that you don’t have to organize one J

Ok then, take care y’all, and until next time!

Kim