Tuesday, 19 June 2012

Day 4: two words - heavy traffic

Over the night it rained and it rained until the morning. I had a little flooding issue in the tent, nothing major just a little. It was cold and I was tired. So tired that I needed to take a leak and it was raining outside so I just opened the zipper of the tent and voila. No shame. It rained till about 0900hrs so I started very late in the day. I was going to cycle on E6 - THE main road - which connects south and north Norway. On the way I asked people if there was any parallel road to the E6 that I could take. They said yes, but I was told that it's not in good condition and is very up and down. So I just made my way down on the E6. I had to stop every so often to let the traffic pass. 

One of the things I wanted to do today was shower and wash. I was getting a little too smelly for myself. Am at a camp site all cleaned up and bought myself some fruit and used my stove for the first time (Amrit would be proud) on the trip and most important charging my things.

I think I have to revise my goal to Oslo - heavy traffic and unknown roads and having to stop for map reading means maybe another 3 days before I reach Oslo. That's over 2 days late.

PS: I could not take that many photos today as there was no place to stop.




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