I and my dogs were ready to drive up north already at 6:30 am. The sky was clear blue and there were almost no wind. I was hoping for a cloudy trip so it wouldn´t become to hot in the car.

We started to drive north at six thirty am. I had checked the oil, filled up with petrol and was ready to go where no man gone before. I had perhaps driven one kilometer (about a mile) when I realised that I had forgotten to take my morning paper from my mailbox. It´s fairly big and filles up the mailbox totally. So I drove back and got it. Just when I was about to restart my journy a warninglight showed. I had no ABS-breakes? Well my breakes worken good anyway, so I drove anyway.



This picture should be further down, but I can´t move it fron its place. We took a short brake by the road and just a few meters beside the blueberries was ready to be eaten.



There was surprisingly little traffic on the road. I thought it would be a lot of tyrailers driving to the next spot they would stay at.


I had checked in my computor what way to take. I wanted to avoid highways, they are rather boring to drive if one is going to drive for almost 600km (373 miles). In my mind I could see small winding roads with picturesque villages with inbreds and perhaps small antique shops too. Perhaps stop at one of their cafés to have a quick break. I can tell You that in that perspective I was fairly dissapointed. The roads weren´t winding at all and villages with inbreds couldn´t be seen. To be honest, there weren´t even ordinary villages by the roads.

The further nort I came, the more clouds there were in the sky, but the windows had to be fully opened anyway.

The roads were straight and broad, going from one town to the other straight through the forest. I´ve always thought that the swedish roads were signed in a good way, but now I have learned different. If to roads comes together for a short while they should have both road numbers beside each other as long as they are the same road and clearly show when they separate. So I missed the best road on my way up, just because of sloppy signing. But I found it on my way home instead.

As always there were many rapair teams out on the roads during summer. Here they actullu was building a new road beside and on the old one.





When we reached Gävleborgs county (The goat is their sign) this sign could be seen almost everywhere. Here it rained and soon the thunder was just over my little car.

On one place where they was reparing the road I had to drive on a small grovel road. I´m glad I didn´t have to meet any one here, the road was just wide enough for my little car :-)

I stopped only once in the forest so my dogs could strech their legs and once at a fast food restaurant. I thought my dogs were worth a little treat being so calm and paitent all the time. So I bought them a cold hotdog each :-) For my self I got an icecream and a bottle of juice. Unfortunally I couldn´t take pictures when I took a shortcut through the forest when I almost had reached my friends home. Lightning struck all around me, the water flooded like big rivers and in the middle of that i drove my little car wondering if they ever would find me if the mud around would start comming down the hills :-)

Finally after six and a half hour I reached my destination.

The place I was going to is in Norrland. Norrland is a place filled with wolves, bears, wolverines and raindeers. I had been driving for over six hours and finally I was there. But Norrland is a rather big part of our country and I this place is not even half way up of Sweden :-) So to be honest, it doesn´t look any different from where I live exept for that the rivers becomes much bigger here. But more of my trip comes tomorrow. Today I´ve tried to mowe my lawn, but a trillion horse flies and other relatives stopped me rather quick. But I have bought three goldfishes, the ones with waggy tails so that my little pond wout produce any more of theose terrible flies. Now I´ll stay inside for a while and then try to mowe my lawn again, hopong that the flies has calmed down some.

Have a great day!