Our Trip to Stockholm and Järna

Stockholm, baby! We just returned last night from a trip to Stockholm and Järna. We had always planned on visiting them, Stockholm because it is Stockholm, and Järna because it is an important place in Sweden for sustainability and also the center of the anthroposophic (Steiner/Waldorf) movement in Sweden. However, we had always thought we would go just before heading off to Norway. For various reasons, we decided, quite last minute, to go...

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Our Non-Work Activities

And we are off! Waiting at a rest stop to start our journey to Norway. We needed the chocolate to stay up so late!It seems crazy but it may actually be easier to blog while on the road than it has been at "home" this past month. No wifi and only a shared, excruciatingly slow computer makes blogging the last thing you want to do. A sick form of torture! Here is a bit about what we have been getting up to recently. Though we've certainly...

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Our Current Home and How We've Been Keeping Busy

Well we've been here at our current host stay for nearly two weeks now, and we've been busy. Given the complications of logistics and the broken toe, Lucy has decided to stay here for the full month as well, so we will not be separating. This certainly saves us some difficult decisions, such as who gets the tube of toothpaste? It's also nice to be in one place for a longer period of time as it is allowing us to undertake some larger projects. This...

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And then Lucy Breaks Her Toe...

Yes, that's the big news of the past few weeks. After two days of settling in, during which we still failed to receive a shower (nearly two weeks since our last one!), we decided to go to a nearby community house for a sauna. Along with Greg, one of our fellow volunteers, we headed down the road, expecting a pleasant Friday night and some well-deserved cleanliness. When we arrived, there was no fire in the sauna yet, so we lit one, then went...

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The Rest of the Trip to Järbo

Well, we're way behind on our blogging, but we've decided to catch up from where we left off on the last post. So here's the story of the rest of the journey to our current host in Järbo, Sweden! After exiting the National Park, we continued through rolling, pastoral hills until reaching the small town of Ullånger. We had only ridden about twenty kilometers, but it was already midday because of our long morning in the park. We collapsed at a...

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An Adventure through Skuleskogen National Park

So much for consistent internet! After a thunderstorm a few days ago, we finally have internet again. After our extended stop in Ornskoldsvik, we continued south, entering the High Coast region. The start of this area was certainly noticeable to us cyclists, as our consistently flat coastal terrain suddenly turned into rolling hills! It was a welcome change though, as the crest of each climb afforded a beautiful view of the sea and the surrounding...

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The First of Many Updates

Random rest stop in the Swedish High Coast Well there is a computer here at the workaway. It is the slowest computer we have used in years, but we will have consistent internet and computer access, so it is time to share some stories from the past week. First, we have added in the photos that were missing from the last post...see below...

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