Farvel

This is the final post before the northern excursion begins. So here is the final tally, Jokkmokk may be out of the question cause it is between 15-20 hours from here and with the rail schedule it would be about a day and a half each way, which is all I have. So I am tentatively heading toward Stockholm at which point I will decide if I am going to go further east, like to Finland. The question depends on cost...how much the boat trip costs, how much a hostel in Stockholm/Helsinki costs, etc...I suspect Stockholm is where I will settle for the weekend, and there is nothing wrong with Stockholm.

It is unfortunate I cannot make it to Jokkmokk cause it would have been really neat to go to that indigenous festival and see the local culture...plus to say that I have traveled north of the Artic Circle! Yesterday a friend pointed out yet another benefit of traveling up there...the northern lights!

I am compelled northward and at least the first day of this trip will be a struggle to get as far north as I can...my goodness, the northern lights! Can you imagine? Well, I am...right now...and all that stands between me and the northern lights is a little creativity, the ridiculous cost of everything in Scandinavia, and time...well space too...but its all relative anyway! I am relatively confident that my will-to-northwardly will bear out. Next update, Sunday night or Monday morning. Wish me well as this southern Californian surfer goes where no sensible San Diegan would ever go...somewhere cold.

Oh yeah...for those of you following my reading, and I am sure that is nobody, I will be bringing the Fragments by Heraclitus...maybe the clear cold air will help me finally get my head around the Heraclitean flux...