 Hey, Aljupa and welcome to my big Swedish adventure I'm riding the length of Sweden from north to south in the previous episode I continued my obsession of lupin flowers. We made it to the sea. Yay But unfortunately, it was time for Mikkel to go home Moron How'd you sleep my friend? Perhaps not as good as the other nights, but still good. You're so close. It's almost all packed up Just keep smushing That's how you do it with bikepacking. You just keep smushing. See you later, buddy There he goes My new Swedish friend It's always hard for me to say goodbye. It is even if I've only known somebody for three days I really develop a connection and Mike's a good guy And I know I'll see him down the road. That's how this works Thank you beautiful campsite next to a lake with pizza All right, bike. Let's go have a great day It's a beautiful day To have a beautiful day. Look at this sunshine I have about 700 miles to go. What do you think about that? almost halfway to No crash ease no flat ease no whammy's and Just like all of my days when I'm out on a bike adventure I don't really know where I'm going today as far as where I'll end up. I'd like to ride another 90 to 100 miles and We'll see where that puts me. I don't know. It's all part of the adventure the unknown My knee really hurts in the mornings But it seems to get better and I hope that's the The pattern here going forward. I don't want this to slow me down to the point where I Can't get the miles I need But little Ivy Profan does the trick little stretching. I should be good Morning lupin flowers How are we doing today? So I was riding by pretty quickly and I looked to the left and I see some classic American cars Check this out You don't expect to see that in Sweden What a beautiful car, you know, and I'm not even into that in the cars But man that is a sexy looking car Man I've heard that there are groups of Swedes that are way into old American muscle cars. I Just found some of them It'll taste a home right there a little taste of old-school home my dad's era He always talked about cars like that growing up the 55 Chevy Little morning stop just to listen to the birds Check out the lupins. Good morning cows. I am on a skinny road out here right now About the width of a bike path No traffic This is the good stuff right now. Wow So I've seen these signs in different places on my route so far and I looked online and There's a route called the Sferia Leiden. There's lots of routes actually Bike routes all over the country and it looks like I'm back on one for a little bit. So the Sferia Leiden is Is a network of bike touring routes all over the country It's not just one from top to bottom or across from west to east It goes everywhere and I appreciate a country like Sweden that develops safe bikeways So that people can explore by bicycle Because as we all know not all of us a lot of us know seeing the world on the seat of a bike is It's really nice and it's the perfect speed nice and slow out of the woods and Into a town good thing about the towns is there's always a bike path always You'll notice these apartments here behind me and pretty much every house has like an enclosed outdoor patio and Swedes love those places because They can use them all year round and still kind of be outside even when it's super-duper cold Look at that car stop for you. Thank you Still on the Sferia Leiden going through Sundsvall now, which is a pretty big city Once again very thankful for the bike path system here. I'm really liking this Garmin This is the first trip. I've ever used it on and The detail is incredible. It's really easy to follow these directions when you're in cities where there's lots of left and right turns all the time and It's solar powered, which is really cool. It lasts for a long long time I only need to charge it like every three days and I'm riding like 10 to 12 hour days Check it out Ikea That's Swedish if you didn't know it You can always count on overpasses and tunnels in a city. Here we go. Oh There's a nice echo in here great acoustics Sundsvall Okay Making a way out of town And Mikkel yesterday told me that Sundsvall It's considered like halfway down Sweden Yay halfway and I have been on the road now For a week. I started last Thursday Today is Thursday Happy Thursday, everybody I'm outside of my favorite grocery store again and today. I just couldn't say no to the Huklaud Bola the chocolate ball these are so good and they're simple It's just like oats and chocolate and some coconut and sugar and butter and It just melts in your mouth. It is so good. Mmm. All right. It's time to get out of here It's taken quite a long time to get through The city and all the little towns connected to the city time to go back out into the Country a little flower therapy always helps More than anything, it's just sometimes good to just get off your bike for a little bit And take a deep breath and just listen to the wind blow through some leaves There's another Sferia laden sign The Sweden Trail I'm on it Sun is shining. We've got some dark clouds Hopefully it won't rain today. We'll see I'm feeling pretty slow and sluggish right now Maybe it's that big old chocolate ball. I just ate What you in me down making me feel slow Or maybe it's the fact that I've been hammering for eight days straight and The rainy muddy days were extremely physically and mentally taxing and my body is finally like whoo Take a break man. Just chill So I'm slowly working through this as I pedal on this beautiful road Thinking about life thinking about how grateful I am just to be out here to be able to do this to have a Strong enough body to pull this off and all the Fancy gear to do it and these cameras to share this with you. I mean Not every moment on a bike tour is rainbows and puppies And right now I'm just kind of blah Well, that's just like life, you know, not every day is awesome Not to say that I'm having a bad day by any means, but I'm just feeling Like I'm having a hard time pedaling But around the corner that could all change There's a lot of ups and downs in this That is for sure. I've done this enough to know that But I just found on the side. I can't leave that flag there Look at that It's the sweetest flag. Maybe I can get that onto my bike somehow. That'd be fun, huh? Okay, I think that might be the best place for it. It's not Perfect, but it'll do. I love the Swedish flag. I love the colors and I have lots of these flags at home in Boulder Let's see if I can get that all the way to Malmö Swedish flag power. Hope it looks good. Is it flowing in the wind? Kind of All right, let's go I Got to give that little flag a home I can't just sit in the ditch like that. I'm in a tiny town now And I stopped at the grocery store to get a little snack. So I got some cold vitamin water. It's pretty hot out I'm guessing it's like 75 maybe a little bit warmer which really isn't that hot compared to what I'm used to back home But it feels pretty warm here and I got myself a Magnum ice cream bar these things are so good And I've just had a bit of a blah afternoon So I need to just sit and chill and have a treat treats make life better whenever you're out On a bike tour or doing something difficult physically just stop and have a treat Usually turns things around My pedal starting to crack. I Hate little creaky noises Look at that car Yeah Seen two classics today Whoo. Oh Come on pedal That's gonna drive me nuts So I'm just stopped me in my tracks and it's the Swedish flag in my disc brake Man come on Swedish flag. You're supposed to make me go faster. Not slow me down man. That is jammed in there So I had to flip my bike over and take the wheel off It was jammed right in the disc brake real tight couldn't pull it out without taking the wheel off and now The flag has been severely defaced. I'm sorry Sweden I'll find a better spot for this. I knew it was trouble putting it there, but You win some you lose some Lupin highway Will lead the way To water and a great place to camp riding next to this lake. I saw it on the map, and I'm just scanning For like an open area to camp Trees trees trees. Oh, oh, oh, this looks like it could be promising. Oh Hey, what? Even a dock here. Oh I'm totally camping here. Even though it's on the side of a road That looks pretty good to me. Oh, yeah in an old ancient Viking stone Table and bench. Whoo. Let's see how far I went 96 miles not bad. I'm good with that real good Whoo, what a day man. What a day I'm feeling good had a bit of a bit of a lower earlier And now I'm feeling better especially now that I'm gonna get wet and clean off. Oh The water is perfect Yes, yes, yes Well, I found my water And this is a perfect like You know what it's time for my pre-dinner treat Look at my cute little matta boo chocolate I Wonder how old this table is. I mean, it's made out of stone. It has lichen growing all over it Could be pretty old and Now it's time for a veggie wrap. I bought earlier in the evenings. I can exhale and relax It's it's nice, you know And I'm sitting over here watching this son and his mother sit and fish and talk And it reminds me of my mom. We do a lot of stuff together. I'm very close with my mom We don't go fishing, but we do lots of other fun stuff. So I always love seeing a mother and a son hanging out and just spending good time together and This lake is just glassy There's actually more bugs tonight because there was zero breeze last night. We had a pretty good breeze So no bugs. So I've got my my bug jacket on And I'm about ready to sleep, you know I slept well last night, but I've really only been getting about Five or six hours of sleep every night. I think it's a mix of jet lag at the beginning and then just getting on a bad schedule, so I'm hoping to get seven or eight tonight because I need the recharge. I could feel that I was slumping today and sleep plays a huge role for me in revitalizing my body And my legs are hurting I've done a lot of miles my knee hurts So, uh, I need some of that That good old sleep Hello there and thank you for making it to the very end of this video You get a high five. I am here to say hey, thank you for watching my videos But also if my videos bring value to your life if you love them with all your heart and soul Or even just a little bit of your heart and soul Please consider joining my patreon. 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