It was that time of year again when my wife had her summer vacation. That means one thing…..It’s time to take her on a hike. So what to do and where to go? Well a certain virus has made decisions a bit easier so Norway it is. So the plan was simple lets go do some summer hiking in the Lyngen Alps and afterwards we would migrate to Senja for a week exploring an island known as “Little Norway”
The world has become a crazy place these days with borders shut down so with a 2 month vacation between Finnish Language classes I was decided it was a good opertunity to explore Finland. My friend Ilkka has been doing bike trips for well over a decade and he persuaded me that it was a great idea to just go out and do it.
I was hesitant as I had never done an over night biking trip let alone a week or two but it sounded interesting. After a few days of looking over maps I decided that I wanted to check out the SE corner of Finland to explore the Karelia region as it has a long history within both Finland and Russia and was an area I had been interested in for years.
When I came up with the trip I came up with 3 rules.
1. I could only Speak in Finnish
2. I could only eat Finnish Food
3. I would make sure to eat the specific foods from Specific towns
Since this is a website based on snowboarding not traveling (though I am more than happy to accept funding) I’m going to keep this story short. My brother was getting married in Vietnam Mid June and I was going to New Zealand mid July so I decided to do a few layovers to see what SE Asia was like as I would probably never have the chance again. So enjoy Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Indonesia.
I went from this
To this in less than 96 hours
Hopefully, we’ve got less than a month to go before winter has got Washington’s mountains in an unbeatable deathgrip. But until that beautiful day, it’s time to explore! With a break in the endless downpour of the last few days, Dan, Jason, and I found ourselves on the Northwest side of the Olympics dreaming of … Read more