As we rode into the roling hills of Trondelag, the landscape took on a familiar hue, a recongnizable smell, and a discernable feel. We could tell that we were quickly approaching our host region from last year.
From the coast, we rode inland up the Surnadals valley to Rindal, where we met Bruno, Tyler's roommate from last year. Together we finished off the day with a 3 hour hike into a back country cabin owned by the sports association at the Norwegian University for Science and Technology. We took some extra time to find the four person bunk house in the middle of nowhere, as none of us had been there before, but we found it with only marginal damage to our pride and only a few hours of slogging through the saturated moss.
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| The creatures of the cabin. |
We rode on the next day to another cabin, this one in Lundamo. We met Kathi and Kjetil and enjoied dinner, sauna, "fishing", card playing, swimming, and cake together at the cabin named Flå Koia.
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| Friends at Flå Koia |
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| Sauna! |
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| Birthday cake and coffee on the lake shore... doesn't get much better than this. |
We rode into Trondheim (the city where Tyler and Bruno lived together last year) on Monday the 18th. The 19th was our first true day of rest - our bikes sat stationary all day as we baked, cleaned, and visited. We took cake to Tyler's old department where we met many old friends and were wished good fortune many-a-time over.
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| Friends for the Insititute for Water and Environmental Enineering at NTNU. |
We had a dinner at Tyler's old flat where Bruno was still living, and got to visit with more friends and eat even more of Bruno's excellent cooking.
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| Dinner party at Moholt. |
It has been crazy to ride back through a place of such recent yet distant memories. This is the perfect time to do so, as many friends are still here. The landscape will always welcome you back, but it has been a real joy to be welcomed back with surprised smiles and flashes of recognition on the faces of friends.
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| In front of the main building at NTNU |
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| In front of Nidaros Dommen in Trondheim. |
