From Myklebost

It’s not like I don’t have time to write.

I’ve been sitting at a bus stop for an hour now. Sat at a ferry dock for nearly two hours before that, waiting on a ferry that stopped running last year.

I’m thankful that the Norwegian cyclists who got off the bus saw my bike and came to check on me and to tell me the only way off this Island is by bus.

Yep, by bus because as I’m finding out around these parts, they like making tunnels under the water. I already had to ride one bus out of Kristiansund because of the tunnel. Bicycles are prohibited. They are in this series of tunnels as well.

So here I am waiting for the bus l think and hope will be coming by in the next couple of hours. I cycled back to the other end of the island (3 miles) to buy food at the grocery store and the guy there seemed to think my bus would come by. So now I’ve cycled back, eaten my “taco burrito” and now I’m waiting at the entrance to the tunnel.

This morning I was up and breaking camp at 6 a.m. to race to catch my first ferry so I’d have enough time to cycle to my next ferry. I think I broke a personal average speed record. I did 13 miles in a whopping 12.6 miles per hour, then beat that on my next six with a 12.9. I hit those ferries just to get stuck at the third on Harøya Island.

I will say that these islands have been lovely and not all due to the fact that they are generally flat.

My goal today is Ålesund. It’s meant to be a lovely harbor city. Today, I think, will be more about mastering public transportation in Norway than cycling. Even so, if my calculations are correct, I’m less than 400 miles from my final destination, Bergen.

Just a little practical information for anyone that might be planning to ride the Norwegian section of the Atlantic Coastal Route (or for the authors of the Euro Velo 1 guidebook, or for Google, for that matter) there is no longer a Harøya-Brattvåg ferry.