The journey continues

Monday May11,2015

                So I’m up early again after a good nights rest. Jo Are is off to work so we say our goodbys and I promise to leave the key in the mailbox. Make myself a cup of tea check the emails twiddle my thumbs(this drives Sally dog sprayed by a skunk crazy) play some solitaire Check that I havn’t forgotten anything. Then?

Aud Marie arrives to drive me to the station. Isn’t she just perfect. So we boost the bag(the big bag ) into the car, there is some squeeling and groaning from the suspension I don’t know why it’s complaining it’s two bottles lighter. Anyhow it starts to bucket down rain so off we go and 5 minutes later we’re at the station. I use the machine buy my ticket to Oslo and we wait and we wait some more and then Aud goes and gets a couple of coffees and cinnamon buns. I forgot to tell you oh never mind you can guess what track it was. Then a S/B Tog arrives. You might ask and I might tell you what a tog is. It’s a train yippee even the right one on time and empty. Where should I sit, what side for the best scenery? I choose the West side upper seats. I lift giving myself a hernia the big back into the car, (railway coach) slide it in between my frontward looking and a backward looking seat and in so doing put may back out but the good thing was the hernia went away! Go squared away and then went back out to talk to Aud some more. Then toot toot whistle whistle, time to go last hugs and away I go waving madly out the window at my cousin waving madly in the window eventually get going fast enough that she can’t keep up so I sit down wondering when I’ll see them all again?

                Easy Peezy train ride in the rain but I get to look at water in Norway’s largest lake from which a Canadian Halifax bomber was raised some years ago and brought back to Trenton Ontario where it was completely restored to flying condition and there it is today for anyone to go and see.

                One hour and 50 minutes later I arrive at Gardemon LuftHavn  Drag the big bag off find a cart right there! Whooppee load it up and take a leisurely stroll to the Lift rise 1 whole floor to the arrivals level. Then have to walk ½ way down the hall to the Departures lift. Ya I know why not have one lift servicing both arrivals and departures? I think it’s a government plot to make everyone exercise whether or not they want to. Get the bag checked in. go for a walk clear through security Go for another walk actually it was a journey. The other end of the terminal kind of journey. By the time I found my gate I was desperately in need of some sustenance so I found the quintestenal  Norwegian eatery. O”tooles. Had an O’toole burger and a Guiness. $35.00 later I got up and caught my plane.

                Would have been a very scenic trip except for heavy clouds so I’ll leave the scenery to you imagination. Two hours later we drop out of the clouds and land in Tromso international airport. Get the bag and a cart head outside find a cab. Take cab to Marina get out of cab at boat, pay cab, find ladder look up away up! Not a chance I’m getting the bag up there! Leave it on the ground. Climb up Open the tarp and cockpit is even messier than when we left! Theres tool, lights a refridgerator parts all over. Open the boat. Turn on some lights( It’s dark under the tarp). Where to start?

I take the last section of cover off which lets in a whole lot of daylight. (this time of the year that’s all you get is daylight! Tidy up inside make up the v berth  pour myself a rum and then deal with the bag. I’m pretty smart so I used the Outboard motor crane. And way hay up it rises but not all the way(insert bad word(s) of your choice here). Soooo one more time I lift it over the push pit place it gently onto a cockpit seat and the empty the (insert bad word(s) of your choice here) It’s simply amazing after taking out two liters of bottom paint 3 litres of hooch 2 gps’s 1 AIS some clothes and one set of fleece sheets I look behind walls and inside stuff video camera and some books how light it became! It was so light I could pick it up with two fingers and then throw it as far back in the ¼ berth as it would go not to be seen or used again until the fall!