How will the journey continue?

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It is already 12:00 noon when we find ourselves back on the thin strip of asphalt heading south. A delicate rainbow arches over the cold steppe landscape and brings a little color to the land, whose vegetation has long since shed its leaves and prepared for the coming winter. Snowmobiles or snowmobiles are parked next to a lonely house. In a nutshell, these are the means of transportation for the inhabitants of this region. At the village

In Olderfjord, we leave the North Cape Road E69 and rejoin European Route 6, which is the longest continuous road link in Scandinavia, covering over 3000 kilometers. It starts in Sweden at the Baltic Sea ferry port of Trelleborg, runs through western Sweden and almost all of Norway. It ends 414 kilometers from here in the town of Kirkenes on the border with Russia. We would now like to turn off towards Kirkenes, but as we have no snow chains with us and have been warned several times about the poor road conditions ahead, I turn right to follow the E6 in the direction we came from a few days ago.

“I’m looking forward to the island of Senja,” says Tanja abruptly. “Me too, but I would actually like to visit the towns of Hammerfest and Tromsø first.” “I think it makes sense to slowly make our way home. We have to be in Germany in five weeks at the latest for the trade fair. There’s not much time left for detours,” Tanja reminds me. “I will never again make an appointment at such short notice after a trip. It just causes stress and interferes with the flow that I love so much.” “You mustn’t forget that everything got mixed up because of the pandemic. We were actually already on our way to Cambodia in the summer to continue our e-bike tour.” “And now we’re in Norway. I am fully aware of the extraordinary situation and I am also glad that we decided at short notice to go to Norway first. It was undoubtedly a fortunate decision and we are undoubtedly far better off than many people back home. Nevertheless, now that we’re here, it would be great if we didn’t have to go home because of a trade fair we’ve been promised. But who knows, maybe it will be canceled. In that case, we could give ourselves another 2 ½ months and just chill out and see Senja and drift from destination to destination,” I fantasize.

319 kilometers after our morning departure, we reach the camp site at Langfjord again, the place where an upcoming polar storm had driven us away four days ago. The fresh snow in the surrounding mountains shows that there has indeed been a massive change in the weather in this region.

We decide to make up for the recovery time we wanted to spend at the North Cape and stay here for a few days. Thanks to our 30-liter gas tank, our 200-liter fresh water tank, the 255-liter diesel tank, the solar system and our 230 V auxiliary generator on the vehicle engine, we can stay in remote locations away from water and external power sources for weeks at a time. Our Terra Love is a mobile power station that enables us to travel freely and independently, which we enjoy every day anew. The days fly by in this secluded location. While Tanja is working on our social media updates, I’m writing our book about Norway, labeling the pictures from the last few days and photographing the aurora borealis passing over us every evening…