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25.1 km by my phone (27km by guidebook), 912m elevation gain. Finally got-up at 6:45am after disrupted sleep beginning at 1am. Weird and unsettling dreams plus leg muscle pains waking me all night/morning. The Norwegian summer light makes it difficult to tell the time without looking at the phone clock. My legs feel okay now.Continue reading “July 8. Day 11 Walking.”

20.6km, 800m elevation gain. 6:30 wake up, hotel breakfast. 8:30 am start walking. I saw a baby bird that must have fledged out of his nest…he started walking towards me and I got scared he might imprint on me. If I were a cat, the bird would definitely be dead but I don’t have aContinue reading “July 7. Day 10 Walking .”

Wake: 7am. Slept well in the beautiful bed as a thunder storm occurred outside. Took an anti-inflammatory/pain killer before bed and didn’t wake up from pain like the nights before. My feet were particularly tight last night. I self-massaged my lower legs and feet. Felt okay this morning. Start: 9:05 from Kapp. The place weContinue reading “July 6. Day 9 Walking.”

Awake at 6:40. Start 9:05 – finish 16:00 Very broken sleep on a couch of the church community hall. My muscles ache. I sensed during the night that taking the pill in the day desensitizes me to the ache and then it feels worse at night when I don’t take the pill. I have twoContinue reading “July 5. Day 8 Walking.”

7ish get up and an 8:30 start with a 3:30 finish. 21.6km, 690m elevation gain. Just before we went to bed last night, Chin-Yu was on the porch and a kind messenger (a man with a daughter and a dog) passed by and told us of a shortcut back to the pilgrim trail rather thanContinue reading “July 4. Day 7 Walking.”

12km, 640m gain. Tingelstad to Blokkhus. Hot hot today. High 20s. Not hot like Western Canada though. Lots of bugs today too with less breeze. Still, we were blessed with occasional heavenly breezes that swept away the constant droning and irritation of summer flies. I first awoke at 4:44am this morning. Then, I had aContinue reading “July 3. Day 6 Walking.”

Broken sleep last night. Should have slept with ear plugs as we left the window open and with this many people around and the happy birds and critters, it got a bit noisy. Walk today: Støvika to Tingelstad. 15 km, 690 m elevation gain. Sunny weather with some clouds and moderate heat. We met Mica,Continue reading “July 2. Day 5 Walking”

20.8km and about 864m (288 floors) gained. 8:30-5:30. The sun was shining again. So beautiful!! It was cool in the morning but warmed up in the afternoon. Not too hot though, but I was tired by day’s end. My feet get hot and tired! My blister required a few stops to readjust the coverings. PainContinue reading “July 1. Day 4 Walking.”

20.3 km (though guidebook says 24km) and 284 floors. The kms on my phone is consistently less than the guidebooks so who really knows. Felt like more anyway. 😂 Blister 1: left foot, second toe from baby. I thought the first victim was going to be my baby toe, which I’ve been nursing but IContinue reading “June 30. Day 3 Walking.”

We walked 20km today, but my Dog!! I was tired. We went up 300 floors according to my health app on the phone. I started the morning with a 4am wake up. I was stiff and sore yet had a calm feeling, as though I was shifting into another state of mind. I wanted toContinue reading “June 29: Day 2 Walking. 20km.”