to scandanavia and beyond

well, i left london after using the internet at an amazingly fast speed and able to talk to home for some time, and while passing through the west end and picadilly circus and seeing people drink on the streets and sitting by eros drinking tennessee whisky, while i was with my huge back pack, and then caught the N9 bus at 1:30 a.m. to get to the airport right before 3 a.m. where i cleaned up in the diaper changing room and slept and woke up from a dead sleep (like the sleep that i had in Green Park in london on my way to cameroon) and thought i might have been late for my flight but i made it and had a bagel

and arrived in sweden to ABBA and beautiful skies and in line to change my money, and asking how to get to town, a man said he would bring me and i road with him, Klaus, and his son, Axel, the 30-45 minutes in to Stockholm and his son had been at a language/soccer week in london and got to meet the chelsea team and claus had been to eureka springs before and was another free soul, he was into tai chi and kadeo and lived in colorado and traveled and had been to arkansas and eureka springs was my fourth guess as to where he had been and he said he loved it and smaller towns like that, but we talked, scattered because he was like me, and he tried to tell me about the city and then Axel and i spoke in slow english, and it was awesome meeting a great family and good guy and he dropped me at the train station

here i waited and bought all of my tickets, and with the exchange rate it was a lot, scandanavia is expensive i am realizing

but then to old town and looking for a hostel and my shoulder is hurting, my bad one, and to two hostels until finding the last one and getting a bed that the reserver didn't show up, and showering

boy was it scalding, but it really wasn't, i just hadn't had a warm shower in, it seems like years, months, and then walking around looking for a grocery store and buying cheese and milk and beer and to 711 (which is everywhere here, i think a taiwanese company from what i remember when i saw it everywhere in asia) to buy oreos and ritz and then eating that for dinner and going out with oliver (from germany), monica (from nc), and danny (from melbourne) to a biker bar (it seemed like) and getting a 9 dollar beer and walking back

and sleeping until 11:30, oh good sleep, and waking up, moving rooms, going with danny to the royal palace for the changing of the guards and then to the Vasa museum and more oreos and milk and olympics and drinking beer

in the morning i will go to city hall for a tour and then off to oslo

sorry for the detail, but it has been a good time, the people have been great, though i know they are said to be cold, i think this is mainly in the winter, so the summer time has melted them and Klaus made my welcome here great, the expense of things has made me pinch my pockets and only eat from grocery stores, and the three travelers i have befriended have made me want to continue my adventure (i even joined couch surfing.com from Oliver's suggestion, todd told me to join a few years ago but i haven't been to europe since then - which is where i think it is most worth it to couchsurf)

i can finally say goodbye to the bugs, hello to the chilly weather, and the beautiful beautiful women, i can't walk a block without shaking my head, zachary and todd the bodd spent a semester here - it must have been amazing...

so from here to there, i will enjoy, and be home soon