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Continue reading →: Day 5 -Storfjord to Saltsrummen66 miles (105 km) – Total so far: 296 miles (476 km) These campsites get really busy late in the evening. I’m not sure it would have been possible to fit another caravan or camper van into the place. With 24 hour daylight people stay up later than the rest of…
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Continue reading →: Day 4 – Sandsletta to Storfjord57 miles (91 km) – Total so far: 230 miles (370 km) I ate dinner with Annette, the Norwegian girl who had been cycling two weeks from North Cape. She was finished and keen for some celebration. The restaurant at the campsite was excellent. Campsites are expensive as I knew. Partly…
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Continue reading →: Day 3 – Risoyhamn to Sandsletta53 miles (86 km) – Total so far: 173 miles (279 km) It was a good night at the S cafe. Two pairs of cyclists shared the accommodation, and great to swap stories of the road. James (Canadian) and Julia (UK) teach at a British International school by coincidence. They were…
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Continue reading →: Day 2 – Skalandtunnel to Risoyhamn51 miles (81 km) – Total so far: 120 miles (193 km) A remarkably good night at the lake. It’s the first time I’ve camped next to tunnels – one in use, but completely quiet after about 9 pm, the other, an old one I think. I had a walk down…
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Continue reading →: Day 1 – Tromso to Skalandtunnel70 miles (112 km) – Total so far: 70 miles (112 km) I had got a good deal on the Radisson last night, and the best thing about it was the breakfast. It was useful to have somewhere to put the bike together also. A decent Scandinavian buffet breakfast is lunch…
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Continue reading →: Day Zero – Travel DayThese are never easy with a boxed bike and a flight, but most things were on time, and the reward was the arrival into the small town of Tromso, bathed in late afternoon sunshine and framed with snow speckled hills, mountains and the sea. You win some, you lose some.…
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Continue reading →: Day 29 – Samuel P. Taylor State Park to San Francisco36 miles (58 km) – Total so far: 1,621 miles (2,608 km) Distance 36 miles (58 km) Time riding 3 hours 27 minutes Max speed 31.5 mph Average speed 10.3 mph Left at 7:50 am Arrived at 12:30 pm The HB area of the campground was busy last night, but plenty…
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Continue reading →: Day 28 – Bodega Bay to Samuel P. Taylor State ParkSunday August 16, 2015, 53 miles (85 km) – Total so far: 1,585 miles (2,550 km) Bodega Bay to Samuel P. Taylor State Park (between Olema and Lagunitas) Distance 53 miles (83 km) Time riding 4 hours 15 minutes Max speed 36.3 mph Average speed 12.1 mph Left at 7:40 am…
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Continue reading →: Day 27 – Gualala to Bodega Bay54 miles (87 km) – Total so far: 1,532 miles (2,465 km) Distance 54 miles (87 km) Time riding 4 hours 47 minutes Max speed 34.0 mph Average speed 11.2 mph Left at 8:15 am Arrived at 1:15 pm The Gualala Hotel was fine for beers and food. Two very posing…
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Continue reading →: Day 26 – Little River to Gualala55 miles (89 km) – Total so far: 1,478 miles (2,378 km) Distance 55 miles (89 km) Time riding 4 hours 37 minutes Max speed 41.1 mph Average speed 11.7 mph Left at 8:15 am Arrived at 2:15 pm Patterson’s pub was busy but a good place to be. The food…
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Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, ‘What road do I take?’ The cat asked, ‘Where do you want to go?’ ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it really doesn’t matter, does it?’
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