Sometimes when you travel, your plans change at the very last moment and you’re forced to come up with a new plan for the day. That’s what happened to me on this particular day during my 2015 bike tour across Denmark, Sweden and Norway. In the end, I was able to enjoy a relaxing day in the forest, cycling across southern Norway and then picking blueberries and strawberries for free in the wild.
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Good morning or I should say good afternoon as it is a little after 1:00 p.m. right now I just got out of my tent I’m camping in the forest just outside of Moss Norway and the reason I took so long getting out of bed today is because
My plans have kind of changed here at the last minute I was originally planning to cycling to Oslo tonight and stay with somebody from the warm showers list tonight and then I would meet my friend Erik who was flying in from Los Angeles in Oslo tomorrow afternoon but
The individual that I was hoping to stay with in Oslo can’t host me tonight so that means I need to stay another night in the forest so my plan is to cycle only a short 50 kilometers or so today to the forest just outside of Oslo like
Just a little bit south of oslo and then the night there and then the following day i will go and meet my friend Erik who’s flying in I’ll meet him at the train station so I guess that means the amount of cycling that I have to do
Today is much smaller the distance is shorter and I don’t have to meet anybody at a specific time or anything so I really have all day to kind of do whatever I want so I’ve been in my tent just listening to podcasts and now I’m gonna pack up and get going I’m gonna
Take kind of the longer more interesting route through the forest today so that should be fun I guess we’ll see hopefully it’s fun and not too difficult and yeah well that is fun now we’re gonna get back on the paved road I wish it was like this the entire land beyond them
There’s a snake right there going through the grass he’s hit black snake that’s the bike path that I’m following right now seven little off-road section here like on this fire road really small but yeah and I got good eyes gonna leave that any little strawberry two strawberries
It’s about 5:30 on a Sunday all the stores are closed pretty much no one around yeah 20 kilometers to go for the rest of the day I gotta find you this would be like the perfect forest to camp in but I want to get a little closer to us whoa
So I have only 30 kilometers or so tomorrow too right if I stop here it’s 50 kilometers to Oslo so I’m gonna keep going I haven’t eaten anything since this morning and there’s a McDonald’s straight ahead I’m gonna go in and get some french fries I almost never do this but
Everything else in town is closed all the supermarket’s didn’t suffer clothes and I’m hungry I’m leaving McDonald’s now I ordered not just one but two orders of french fries and they cost me 60 milk which is like seven dollars and seventy cents US dollars damn so I’m cycling around this
Lake right now I don’t know what it’s called it’s called Lake George Owen or something like that and I’m on the southern end of the lake right now and I’m planning to camp kind of on the northern end often the trees what does that mean exactly it’s a camp and I just
Stumbled across this fire ring if I were here with Pablo and Anna like there was a few days ago this would be a good place to camp probably cuz I’m by myself I don’t really want to as a bow and arrow in there so someone’s been camping out here
Blueberries picked in the wild they’re all over the place here so here’s where I’m camped tonight kind of on the small ledge here looks out there’s a lake right here but you can’t see it see those houses they’re like on the lake basically on the other side of
The lake and then here’s the forest again so yeah pretty nice all of these plants right here are blueberries so I’m going to get a bunch of blueberries for dinner tonight in addition to what I already have and yeah there’s a camp so I’m picking blueberries see they’re
Right here they’re all over the place here yeah they kind of hide under the leaves a little bit you have to dig like that one but they’re all over the place and I’m using my sunglasses case door see I’m gonna try to fill this whole thing up
That’ll be my dessert tonight so check it out filled up this entire sunglass case pretty much so that’s my dessert maybe breakfast as well in the morning we’ll see I can see why blueberries are so expensive now it’s a lot of work to pick just a small amount of these this is small
So it’s just before 9 p.m. right now it doesn’t look or feel like it to be honest but it’s getting cold and I haven’t eaten almost anything all day except for those french fries from McDonald’s so I’m gonna climb inside my tent and make some dinner I got sandwiches an apple and those
Blueberries that I picked in the wild so that’s it for dinner there’s a big old spider on my leg we two kilometers from the border of Norway and Sweden say goodbye to Sweden for a while I’ll be back in about a month and a half to finish my tour in Scandinavia but for
Now Norway