Hofles

Today I had a group of bike tourers overtake me today, on an uphill, as if these hills weren’t enough to make me feel inadequate. Later I met all of them at the ferry, a family of three and a solo biker. How is everyone so fast & strong, I wonder.

Rens left early today, he wanted to avoid the heat. I don’t follow that logic though, the only way to avoid the midday Sun is to entirely avoid midday, ergo starting the ride later in the evening, or finishing before midday.

Right after I started I met Eva and Jess. Two lovely girls going home south to Oslo from Nordkapp; they gave me really nice tips for Lofoten, wild camping shelters and a bunch more things. I can’t wait to reach there now.

It’s been rather tough today with the heat, enough to leave salt stains on my shirt. I ran out of water at some point, but fortunately found lake on top a hill, where I refilled. What I really wanted to do today was to ride through the low Sun, but I ended up waiting at the ferry for too long. I have been wild camping last two days, so today I thought might as well just go right to a campsite. Eva and Jess inspired me to do more wild camping, but today it would be nice to shower and clean up a little, specially all the sweaty salt stains from my clothes.

After I reached the campsite I realised that the reason I ran out of water today is because not all bottles can hold carbonated beverage, at least that’s my understanding now. I usually carry two bottles in my panniers, and I had bought two bottles of sparkling water which I had transferred to my bottles. I didn’t really realise they were carbonated when I bought them, but I didn’t think too much of it anyway. So most of that water spilled into my clothes and now I have quite a few wet clothes drying on my bike.

Apart from all that, pretty good ride today!

Good Night!

Hofles, Norway