Packing Up and Setting Out

Well I have gotten here finally. If my calculations are correct my total travel time from Bakersfield to Engavågen is 57 hours. YWAM staff, in a DAF mini-bus pulling a trailer, picked four of us from the train station and then we picked up 10 more from the airport. The bus and the trailer were so full of skis, bikes, backpacks and luggage. It was a cramped 3 hour ride from the airport to the YWAM base. The road wound around all of these fjords and through many tunnels in the mountains. The longest tunnel was 4.7 miles long! The tide was going out and some of the fjords resembled fast moving rivers as the water rushed out to sea. We got to the base about 10:15 pm and ate dinner. I share a room with two guys, one from Germany (Lars) and one from southern Norway (Rune). The view from the window of our room is breathtaking and pictured in this post. Today we are packing up for a backpack trip on a nearby glacier. We are hiking up to a back country cabin.