this trip. . . . it is dildos, page 8
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I also got these giant-ass panorama photos i took. from like 180 to 360 degrees. . .too big to fit on this here page. click on them to see the whole thing.
bergen lake -bergen lake 2 -bergen city -bergen top mountain -cliff -cliff two -iceland desert -flem cliff -glacier -iceberg -iceberg two -moss -moss two -myrdal lake -myrdal valley --myrdal valley 2 -myrdal valley 3 -narrow fjjord -rockwall -rosenthal mountain -sondal glacier -waterfall -waterfall 2 -waterfall 3 -
TUESDAY
Drive to a small town which looks like this:
what is so exceptional about this tiny fishing village?
why am i so stoked to be there??
it's named BAKKA. in japanese, baka means "idiot." naturally i was drawn to it.
bakka tunnel!!
bakka kyrkje, which means literally "idiot church!"
baka bunny!
bakka goats!! bakka sheep!! it never gets old!!
This is hella awesome because in Japanese baka means “idiot.” It would have been perfect if they had a big, touristy ‘WELCOME TO BAKKA’ sign with little lion’s club and rotary club emblems attached. They don’t though, because it is just a town of maybe 10 houses. But They do have little signs like “bakka church” and “bakka tunnel”. A lot of the tombstones in the cemetery have the family name BAKKE.
So maybe the “A” of the town name is a possessive. Like adding an “apostrophe S” in English. Maybe bakkA means like “Bakke’s town” or “of Bakk” or something.
and incidentally, the view from the town is like this:
I didn’t even know that this town was a World Heritage Beautiful Scene Place. I was just like, “Huh huh, bakka!” good weather for once. I nap on a flowery hillside in the sun overlooking Narrowfjord. Some rotund German uncle wakes me up, calling , “are you ok?” am I ok?? Dude, can you see where I . am??? Can you think of a better place on earth for a nap??? WTF?? Again, if it was a married couple doing it, it would be ok, but because I am alone I am suspicious.
At the ferry depot is a souvinier shop. the troll here has his nose castrated.
next to him is this motherfucker with a huge- ass broadsword all trying to act innocent.
I drive 2 hours to a port town called GJERMANSHAVN (which sounds like a porno genre, and probably is, knowing how Germans are ( Germany and Japan are the most infamous kinky porn countries. What is it about nations that are obsessed with neatness and order that makes them so pervy? When Singapore finally discovers sex, they are just going to take over. I am scared even thinking about what that industry is going to be like. Snuff films of sidewalk gum-chewing people or something)). Anyway I drive for 2 hours only to miss the ferry by 10 minutes! Whatever, I am just happy to be ALIVE. Norse roads are scary !! Even big highways are up, down, rainy as hell, winding back and forth, steep. But the country roads are just one lane, and they GET NARROWER around blind curves, and . 18 wheel delivery trucks use them. Jesus! I didn’t get out of 3d gear the whole time, I think. The whole thing was an insane white-knuckle ordeal even at 50 kph!
Anyway, after the exhausting drive, I still gotta wait 70 minutes for the ferry, which I use all 70 worrying about how I am going to ever find a hotel at midnight in a one-horse town. Drive through the town 3 times checking out anything even remotely hotel-looking-like, but no luck. In fact I am searching for a turnoff to a country road where I can just sleep in my car, when I notice a light on; a guesthouse! With a party still going at 11:30 at night! and I get the last room available!
This town is ROSENDAL.
I am happy of course, but still pissed because so much of travel involves struggles for basic things? food, shelter, cameras, ferries. If you fail to find ‘em, it is DISASTER but even if you succeed, against great odds , you are still only breaking even! I took all these risks just to have a tiny, cell-like room with no toilet.
this trip. . . . it is dildos, page 8
page 1 - page 2 - page 3 - page 4 - page 5 -
page 6 - page 7 - page 8 - page 9 -page 10
I also got these giant-ass panorama photos i took. from like 180 to 360 degrees. . .too big to fit on this here page. click on them to see the whole thing.
bergen lake -bergen lake 2 -bergen city -bergen top mountain -cliff -cliff two -iceland desert -flem cliff -glacier -iceberg -iceberg two -moss -moss two -myrdal lake -myrdal valley --myrdal valley 2 -myrdal valley 3 -narrow fjjord -rockwall -rosenthal mountain -sondal glacier -waterfall -waterfall 2 -waterfall 3 -
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