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I may not travel where I intend to go,
But I shall end up where I need to be. Walking, Biking, and rambling around the world.

Fun and informative travel bits from expeditions around the world.

06/08/2025

Many years ago, it was tradition that laborers on farms adopted the last name of the owner of the farm.

My family left the region of Hell Norway, three generations ago. The neighborhood where they left is still covered with references to the original farm owner.

It was really wild and a lot of fun to cycle around and take pictures of all of the signs with my last name on it and try to identify which one is the most loosely secured sign.

05/08/2025

I’ve made many of my students glad when I finally listened, and today I went to Hell!

Fun fact, the Geving family farm is on the hill above my head- more on that soon!

02/08/2025

Norway has provided me with absolutely next level camping locations.

The glacier in the back is relatively new at 5,000 years old. In the late ‘90s it had reached down to the bottom of the lake and can move 2m/6ft in a day.

23/07/2025

There’s camping, and than there’s Norwegian camping.

19/07/2025

This zig zag in the rocks a geologic pattern?

Nope!

This is a WW2 German trench for part of their coastal defense network in Norway. There’s been a few bunkers and forts that I’ve explored on the Norwegian coast. Most show the evidence of how little the German priority was as the foundations are barely there. Many of these were coastal artillery fortifications.

18/07/2025

It has been wild being in the land of the Midnight Sun. As I ride all day, I can watch the Sun trace circles above me. It really blows my mind to think about how fast we are spinning on this rock. It will be another two weeks before I see another sunset.

Apparently it really blows. My GPS’s mind too.

17/07/2025

I am a large fan of baby food and pouched fruits on a ride. This one is a great example of a good idea, but bad ex*****on.

15/07/2025

Can confirm, it wasn’t Rudolph. Coulda been one of the other eight on a training ride.

Lapland’s pretty cool!

12/07/2025

There’s advertising, and than there’s Finnish Yogurt companies!

Also, if anyone wants yogurt, I happen to have a bunch now.

10/07/2025

Finland has a wide network of skiing shelters. They are fair game to sleep in, and with a fire pit inside have made for extremely cozy sleeping!

06/07/2025

Zoom in and check out this art. It’s painted in a command center in an abandoned Soviet Nuclear missile site.

You’ll see those graphics had three lights above for three different styles of attack. From left to right- air attack, radiation cloud, and atomic. The art is there but the lights are missing.

A light would go off above the corresponding graphic, then the soldiers would know what response to make at the base.

04/07/2025

Who better to celebrate the Fourth of July than with Vladimir Lenin?

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