Away We Go!

Well, It is 9am and raining and cold outside... though it was tempting to stay in Forshfvuds comfy apartment, we are ready and underway... below is everything we are bringing with us, along with a few cute pictures to please our families and loves. Yay!

The Day BEFORE Tomorrow

Well The American is here, and it is the day BEFORE the day that will live in infamy...

We are all packing and repacking and what not, but lets get to the more interesting things.

We, as stated below, went shopping yesterday, and then did a bunch of preparation on the bikes while Curlylox cooked a wonderful meal of sweedish meatballs and salad and some unknown product he claims is "organic."

As for Jet lag... well the picture speaks for itself...

FYI... right after that picture was taken, I awoke myself because I poured the beer in my hand while I was sleeping all over myself.

We saw the great sights of the city yesterday, and met a bunch of Curlyloxs friends who were awesome. It is a beautiful sunny day here, we may going sailing... we may go biking... we may go into the city...

But one thing is for certain, tomorrow it begins

Forshufvud and Grönlie in Billdal

Friday July 10th 2009.

Its Friday night!! Forshufvud and I are "practice packing" in his moms place in lovely Billdal (a hole-in-the-wall suburb 20 km south of Göteborg). I got here yesterday with a train from Oslo, and forshufvud came with his bike to guide us home. It is flaaaaaaaaaat here, at least in the city. Hoping it will be like this all the way to France :-S

Coincidently, Forshufvuds mom is also packing for a bike trip. She is biking for a week on the islands of Tjörn & Örust with her friends so we've all had a cyclotron to share. She leaves tomorrow morning so she wont get a chance to meet our third wheel, Scott. We hope she gets good weather and some happy trails :-)

We pick up Scott from the airport tomorrow at noon and scramble to do some last minute shopping before everything closes on Sunday. We plan to start moving on Monday morning and it is expected to rain :-(

Thats all for now.
Grönlie

Gøteborg-Lisbon-Faro

Vis Goteborg-Lisbon-Faro i et større kart

Grønlies Bike

I ride a Norwegian made DBS Street Track Alivio, just like Forshufvud, I bought it of the streets :-) or Finn.no, from a man named Peder. The bike roles like a dream. This green almost glows in the dark. 21 gears, 53" frame, 28" wheels. Im ready like Rock Steady and Bee Bop!

Scotts bike

Scott rides a bike actually designed for what we plan to do. It is a Surely Long Haul Trucker. This puppy has it all. Lots of gears, clipidoodles, TWO BOTTLE HOLDERS, cool gear flippers....the whole 9. The scandinavians are as green as this bike with envy.