Tromsø, Norway-Gateway To The Arctic

Norway Field Notes · Rain Is Not a Stop Sign

On Our Bikes

Some complain about the rain. Others bike in it. Some bike in it and hope they get struck by lightning.

Some complain about the rain, others bike in it, and some bike in it and hope they get struck by lightning.

Ordinary World

Weather Worth Complaining About

The Call

What Are We On?

Cycling through rainy Norway
What Are We On? “We are on our bikes.”

Rain changes the scenery, the pace and the story. It does not necessarily change the destination.

The answer to bad weather is sometimes not shelter. Sometimes it is momentum.

Foreign Land

There Is Norway I’d Go

Traditional Norwegian heart-shaped waffles
There Is Norway I’d Go Oslo Large, soft, fluffy and heart-shaped vafler—waffles—are a Norwegian tradition.

There is Norway I’d go Oslo and make a pun about these large, soft, fluffy and heart-shaped vafler—waffles—a Norwegian tradition.

Travel works best when the weather is serious and the food refuses to be.

Trials

Keep Moving Through It

The trial is rarely the rain itself. It is the decision to let the rain define the day.

On a bicycle, every hill is personal, every wet mile is earned, and every pause becomes part of the route.

Answer the Call

The View from the Bridge

The view from a bridge in Norway
The View from the Bridge Distance turns effort into perspective.

The Elixir

The rain was never the story. The story was that we kept riding.

Norway supplied the weather, the waffles and the view. The bicycle supplied the answer: forward is still forward, even when the road is wet.

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