Average speed:16.7km
Moving time: 5h25m
Total distance: 90.4km
Money spent: 80NOK on a burger, 110NOK on some groceries and 40NOK on some McDonalds. About $35 - well past my budget of $15 a day.
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Elsa, Hugh and I got back this morning at around 5am, I did want an early start as the weather was going to be sunny but obviously I needed sleep. After I managed to get all my shit together and load up my bike I finally was off cycling around 12. I wanted to get 100km in today and average this throughout the trip - this is what a french guy I met when cycling the west coast of the states told me to do and he should know because he had cycled over 40,000km around the world.
Trying to squeeze in some photos of the center of the city before I left oslo my sense of direction became a little off, ending up in completely the wrong area of the city.
My GPS has the map software for the America's but unfortunately not here, I will have to download the map pack to make my trip here over the next 6 months a little easier.
After a bit of struggle I made my way out of the city and onto a bicycle path that took me south towards Gothenburg, it ran alongside highway E18 and the E6 and even then it was a nicely paved bicycle path off the the road.
At one point 45km from Oslo I was starving and went to a gas station wanting to pick up something cheap - unfortunately this is Norway and nothing is cheap, so when asking the woman behind the counter she suggested to make me a burger, not only did she do this but also gave me some muffins for free.
Still, it was roughly $13 for a burger and drink.
Getting close to sunset, again I was getting hungry and was going to stop to camp and make food but there was an oh so tempting McDonald's just there and decided to go inside and get the cheapest thing on the menu, but as I keep saying about here 'not cheap at all'.
I camped in a small patch of forest across the road from McDonald's and found a great spot to set up camp on some comfy mossy ground surround by trees that I could suspend my tarp over everything. The forecast said it was going to rain this evening and good thing I did a good job of this because it certainly did bucket it down.
Day one of many, no hiccups with the mechanics of my bike and no physical injury - i'm sure this will change in due time. In regards to mental health, I’'m cycling 10,000km to Israel, that goes without saying.
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