To Å and Back.

Today Sheila drove us to the little town of “Å” (pronounced “Oh”) on the southern/western tip of Lofoten. Because Å is about 130 km from where we are staying, most pictures were taken out the window of a moving car. Along the way we encountered more of Lofoten’s common road “hazards”:





Please note in the photo of the skip-loader, that it really is as wide as the whole road ….though the locals use this is as a two-lane road!! When largish RVs, large trucks, often  semis, even pulling an additional trailer, and large buses, are added to the traffic mix, as well as the not-so-occasional agricultural equipment and cyclists, these narrow roads provide frequent precision-driving opportunities, including sometimes testing the trafficability of the first 10-20 cm past the pavement’s edge. Note that the pronounced three-dimensional serpentine path of these roads provide an additional dimension to the abundant routine challenges. Do you know to +/- 2 cm or less where the edges of your car are?

Because it was a cloudy, often rainy day, the mountains frequently had partly or wholly cloud-covered tops.





Norway is rebuilding the road to Å into a “normal” paved, wider, true 2-lane road, like the more northern parts of E10.  But the rebuilding process is as annoying here as elsewhere.



The end of Lofoten looks pretty much like lots of its other coastline areas.



As an extra bonus, Sheila found these pretty orchids at the end.



Jorunn drove us home again, and since the ladies have been doing all the driving, they got the evening off from cooking.  Roald made dinner, and Lars has promised to make breakfast.  This seems fair, right?