Woke up in the german city Nordhorn at an improvised camp site yesterday morning. Rain had been pouring the day before that and it was still going. As almost every morning we made coffee on our beloved camping stove under some roof along the way. After a half an hour of biking we crossed the dutch border as our bike computers counted the 1000th kilometer of the trip.
We had second lunch in Arnhem, or first dinner if you will, sat at the big square for yet another cup of coffee.
At 8:30 Kristoffers friend Gert-Jan met us on his bike to escort us the last 35 km to his apartment in Utrecht, where we have now spent the night after setting the record of 192 km on one day. Right now we are resting after breakfast, listening and singing along to Scotts guitarplaying. Next stop Belgium.
/KF
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Friday, July 24, 2009
Yes - We Are Alive
Hello all, so its been a while since our last post. Why you may ask? Well lets just say that tiny German towns do not hold a wealth of internet cafes, let alone any at all.
We are alive! We decided to get hotel rooms last night: we biked all day through pouring rain, our bodies tired, and our clothes completey soaked, we arrived in a lovely little town called Cloppenburg, where we got rooms and sampled our last German beer before we reach the Netherlands! So much has happened in this week, and we have many pictures to come once again, however these internet cafes dont let you plug anything in (sad face)
For now though let me give you some of the highlights of the past week...
1) We accidentally went on the autoban, which led to the German police meeting us and escorting us off of it, and they were so nice!
2) I got my third flat tire... yay!
3) We camped in a church sight and a very determined black lab ate all our english muffins, which led to the family bringing us a lovely array of cheeses and meat on freshly baked bread... mmmmmm
4) Woke up that morning at the church and a really nice blacksmith made us hot coffee in his shop.
5) Took two ferrys, and afterwards ended up camping out on a local volunteer firedepartments land where we were greeted by a gentle giant of a german fireman who offerred us fresh fruit
6) Rain and Pain - Biked through terrential downpours (pardon all the grammatical errors by the way I am not adept at this whole German Keyboard) and finally arrived in Cloppenbourg, where we will now head out from to reach Holland!
Pictures of all these things will be up as soon as we stay with Kris´s friend in the Netherlands, where we will actually be able to plug in our cameras!
healthwise, we are all feeling fine, well except our butts are a bit sore, but what are you going to do?
PS. Sausages and curry = yum
Ciao Ciao
We are alive! We decided to get hotel rooms last night: we biked all day through pouring rain, our bodies tired, and our clothes completey soaked, we arrived in a lovely little town called Cloppenburg, where we got rooms and sampled our last German beer before we reach the Netherlands! So much has happened in this week, and we have many pictures to come once again, however these internet cafes dont let you plug anything in (sad face)
For now though let me give you some of the highlights of the past week...
1) We accidentally went on the autoban, which led to the German police meeting us and escorting us off of it, and they were so nice!
2) I got my third flat tire... yay!
3) We camped in a church sight and a very determined black lab ate all our english muffins, which led to the family bringing us a lovely array of cheeses and meat on freshly baked bread... mmmmmm
4) Woke up that morning at the church and a really nice blacksmith made us hot coffee in his shop.
5) Took two ferrys, and afterwards ended up camping out on a local volunteer firedepartments land where we were greeted by a gentle giant of a german fireman who offerred us fresh fruit
6) Rain and Pain - Biked through terrential downpours (pardon all the grammatical errors by the way I am not adept at this whole German Keyboard) and finally arrived in Cloppenbourg, where we will now head out from to reach Holland!
Pictures of all these things will be up as soon as we stay with Kris´s friend in the Netherlands, where we will actually be able to plug in our cameras!
healthwise, we are all feeling fine, well except our butts are a bit sore, but what are you going to do?
PS. Sausages and curry = yum
Ciao Ciao
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Convalescence: A Necessary Thing
Well, I like to give the bad news first: we are still in Daytona Beach aka Großenbrode
Good news: Kris´s knee feels a bit better, and Forshfvud`s health has improved! We just want to take one ore day to make sure that they are in tip top shape for biking tomorrow. So do not worry families, things are looking up, we just have to spend one more wonderful night here... which to say the least once again, is far from wonderful.
Keep you updated, in the meantime, we are well working on getting our tan equal among are upper bodies, since all of us have pretty bad biker tans... oh yes, there will be pictures
Cheers
Scott
Good news: Kris´s knee feels a bit better, and Forshfvud`s health has improved! We just want to take one ore day to make sure that they are in tip top shape for biking tomorrow. So do not worry families, things are looking up, we just have to spend one more wonderful night here... which to say the least once again, is far from wonderful.
Keep you updated, in the meantime, we are well working on getting our tan equal among are upper bodies, since all of us have pretty bad biker tans... oh yes, there will be pictures
Cheers
Scott
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Stranded in Limbo
Hi all,
first to warn you we cannot upload any of our wonderful pictures at the moment, because we are at a campsite in northern germany on a computer that does not let you plug anything in... ps german keyboards confuse me.
But we are here in Germany! We took the ferry over, and found a campsite near the water.
Now for the bad news...
The reason we are resting here is twofold: Curlyloxs health appears to remain the same: not so good. Were hoping he just needs rest, and wish him a quick recovery.
On the other hand, Kris's knee continues to worsen, and we are worried that it will continue to do so despite rest. We expected these things to happen, we just wished it did not happen so quickly!
Last night, we have sourkraut and Sausages for dinner (which we have great pictures of if only I could put them up)
We will continue to push on and hopefully reach Utrecht in a couple of days, though it all depends on the knee and the throat of curlylox.
A ongoing thanks to those of you who donated so far, we have been spreading the word about Opportunity to those people we have met along the way so far, including a wonderful Danish farmer who let us camp on his land, brought us beers, and took us to a swimming hole on Denmark! Pictures to come
As for my health, I am doing fine. No problems yet, and I hope to remain that way, but one never knows when the knees and joints will begin to buckle.
By the way, yes mother, we are wearing suncreen!
Hi to my cat Merlin.
Thats all for now... RIDE OR DIE!
Scott
first to warn you we cannot upload any of our wonderful pictures at the moment, because we are at a campsite in northern germany on a computer that does not let you plug anything in... ps german keyboards confuse me.
But we are here in Germany! We took the ferry over, and found a campsite near the water.
Now for the bad news...
The reason we are resting here is twofold: Curlyloxs health appears to remain the same: not so good. Were hoping he just needs rest, and wish him a quick recovery.
On the other hand, Kris's knee continues to worsen, and we are worried that it will continue to do so despite rest. We expected these things to happen, we just wished it did not happen so quickly!
Last night, we have sourkraut and Sausages for dinner (which we have great pictures of if only I could put them up)
We will continue to push on and hopefully reach Utrecht in a couple of days, though it all depends on the knee and the throat of curlylox.
A ongoing thanks to those of you who donated so far, we have been spreading the word about Opportunity to those people we have met along the way so far, including a wonderful Danish farmer who let us camp on his land, brought us beers, and took us to a swimming hole on Denmark! Pictures to come
As for my health, I am doing fine. No problems yet, and I hope to remain that way, but one never knows when the knees and joints will begin to buckle.
By the way, yes mother, we are wearing suncreen!
Hi to my cat Merlin.
Thats all for now... RIDE OR DIE!
Scott
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Wish I could be, Part of Your World
Today we visited the Little Mermaid statue, depicting the famous little mermaid from H.C Andersens fairytale... that was turned into a movie!
Cycling Update
Here is a little update of our life on the road...
July 14, 2009: Day 2
1) Woke up in Halmstad, Sweden at our campsite around 8:30, started biking around 11:00
2) Biked around 65km (45 miles) to Angelholm where we met Alf and Nanna, who bought us snacks (thank you!) and said they would meet up with us later "Chez Ida."
3) Our rumps and knees are not doing the greatest; this is the price you pay for being so foolish and doing almost 95 miles the very first two days of the journey...
4) Taking the Ferry from Helsingborg to Denmark.
Ridetime: 8 1/2 hours
Average Speed: 19.57 Kilometers/hour
Trip Length: 140 Kilometers
Odometer: 289 Kilometers
Denmark: Quick, Easy, and Absolutely Perfect
Here we are in Denmark, at Ida's house, who is the sister of Kris´s uncle´s (Alf) wife (Nanna). We are living like Kings at this beautiful house.
How perfect, we were met by some wonderful Danish people, who fed us danishes in the morning, and to top it all off... we were met with dinner waiting and great company, including our friend below...
In other news, we leave today for Rødby, in Southern Denmark, and then we will be in Germany by tomorrow!
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