This is a combination of things people have asked us, things we learned, and things we think might be helpful to others who might want to do such a tour in the future. If you have other questions, just let me know and we'll answer!

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And so we awoke on our final day in order to begin our journey home. Our flight was at 10:20am, so I think we got up around 5am. Which wasn't a challenge, since that's when our bodies had been wanting to get up for several weeks now, due to time zone confusion and an excess of ambient light.

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I slept in as much as I could, then rolled out of bed and sllooowwly got ready.. to run! I had packed running shorts and hoped that I might run in the cities we spent more time in (Amsterdam, Oslo, Stockholm), but didn't manage to actually get a run in until day 20, the last full day of our vacation. That one run totally justified me hauling the ( Read more... )

I woke up and thought, "Oh, man. Finally, after a night of being exhausted and having a couple drinks, plus knowing that I didn't have to get up and ride this morning, I FINALLY managed to sleep in a bit!"

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This was the last day of our 6 contiguous days of riding, and in fact the last day of our ride from London to Stockholm. One last 52 mile ride and we would be at our destination!

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This was day 5 of our 6 day final push through to Stockholm, and I'm not gonna lie: we were tired.

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Continuing our every-other-day theme, day 16 dawned bright and sunny!

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This was a long, long, hard day.

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Day 14 dawned sunny and clear and full of alpacas. It was beautiful, which helped me forget how hard the day before had been.

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And so it was time to bid farewell to Oslo and begin our push eastward to our final destination: Stockholm, Sweden. I mean, not on this day. Over the next 6 days.

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