June 24
Samuli greatly us warmly for our 11am appointment in his brewing facility - 1 minute from our mosquito respite camp area. He described his 2 years of experiences as a functioning brewery brewing wild-ale style brews.
Samuli greatly us warmly for our 11am appointment in his brewing facility - 1 minute from our mosquito respite camp area. He described his 2 years of experiences as a functioning brewery brewing wild-ale style brews.
His latest masterpiece - that's over $10,000 worth of cloudberries - too bad we won't be around in the Fall for the tasting.
He ages his brews 2-5 years in wine and sherry barrels - most from southern France.
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 | We took what we thought was a brief road side break here - whip up some lunch - but ambled over to the road side stand to check it out. After deciding we didn't need any souvenirs from the right building, we peeked into the left and it was smelling good and looking cozy with a fire (it's low 50's outside). A dude was cooking up pancakes, so we had one each also. Reindeer for Tim and smoked salmon for Gerri. It's not Michelin level cuisine, but nice folksy presentation and pretty good. They been here doing this since 1986. |
After about 100 miles we decide for a short driving day after all the mosquito fun last night - Gerri found a nicely featured campground on the Artic River. She's exhibiting a Geocache find here in this moment.
We're still getting used to this rig - it's been 2 1/2 days since we plugged in, and with the short drive today, the house battery strength is unknown, probably fine, but it'll be good to plug in tonight to shore power.
 | We try one of the 5 bottles we bought this morning from Samuli - it tasted fantastic. |
We head ever northward, now well above the Artic Circle. We've been thinking really crazy between yesterday and today, and wonder if we can head up into Norway at this point, and go all the way to North Cape, the farthest northern point of Europe - okay let's do it!
June 25
Dude! Git some giddy up and move along little dogie...
After driving about 45 minutes, we pull off to hike the Juutua Nature Trail...Gerri is prepared for the skeeters - luckily they weren't too bad here after all.
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We still can't get over how these national park shelters are nicely featured including fire starter, free firewood, and axe/chopping block. A young family had just cooked up their sausages, but one fell in the fire - the aroma is spread all around us.
It's a myriad of places to go at this point, but we'll keep our walk fairly short (4.2 miles of easy walking).
Every hundred yards or so are these light poles - cross-country skiing and snowshoeing is done in the dark in much of the deep Winter months - in the middle of Winter the Sun stays well below the horizon.
The trail passes through a tourist waypoint about half-way through - nice rig!
A lake excursion yacht used during a very short warm season.
We crossed a roadway bridge and now head back towards the camper van along the river.
 |  Someday, we may build that cabin over yonder... |
North Cape, Norway - only 343 km to go (213 miles).
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Norway! We leave Finland for a bit.
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Our CampVanApp steers us to this church parking lot in Lakselv for the night - it was quiet and only had a few mosquitos to deal with. The CampVanApp is chocked full of details about camp sites and amenities.
 | We've only a little ways to go before we're at the end of Europe! |
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