Heading Towards Home - Sweden!

Driving through northern Sweden was nice, but not as great as Norway or northern Finland. It had flattened out so much and the snow went away (even though it was still freezing), but there were a lot of lakes we drove by. Most of the driving was through forested roads though which was nice, but not mountains or snow! When we first crossed over to Sweden we drove through a town and it was like the apocalypse happened and we didn’t know about it. There was no one in the town…there was a school and houses and grocery stores and all the things, but literally no people. It felt like a ghost town for a long while…and then there started to be life around once we got farther into Sweden. A bit different than no one around in Finland as there we didn’t really go through any towns or anything. It was so strange!

We stopped at a stone arch bridge in the one town and a rest stop with a nice place to sit out on the water. Then we came back across the Arctic circle and are camped just below it! It feels so much colder here than where we were in Norway which makes no sense to me! We walked around the camping area a bit as it is in the forest and there is a river nearby by and it was so so so cold! I forgot to take a photo of where we camped when we got here, which was just after sunset as it is so early, so the only photo is the one after dinner in the near dark :) tomorrow we continue on through Sweden and I have a few short walks to do so we shall see how far we get! I’m glad we took this extra day as it has been really nice getting out of the car and walking around a bit. Plus not driving till late is great. We stopped in time to make dinner and relax a bit.

Driving today was sunny all day and so it was really noticeable how the sun did not get very high in the sky. It felt like it was so early forever, like 1pm it felt like 10, until it suddenly started feeling late at like 3pm. It’s been fun seeing all this up here, but I don’t know that I would like living so far north!Read more