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Helsinki, Finland 7 June 2004
(2004)
John Dennis Clark 111
Just entering Helsinki, Finland... in rain of course...we have lost our driver and have stopped for lunch at the home of Joachim Lent, German by origin but has lived in Finland the past 10 years. He has been a tremendous help with translation and direction. Luckily we went through 72 hours of sunshine before again returning to the wet stuff. The riding pace has slowed a little to under 100 km a day.
Each evening we have to find a new camping place as we have free camped our way through the country. Some nights we have really beautiful place and then the next night we spend the evening feeding mosquitoes. To get the better places we have to get permission from land owners, a feat at which we have always been successful. The last place we rewarded our host by moving a small mountain of fire wood into the owners wood shed. An exercise taking 13 people two hours. By the time we left the couple had fallen in love with us. And the man's expression indicated that he would greatly want to join us on the continuation of our tour.
We have ridden a little over 2200 km from North Cape.
In the next few hours we make our way to the center of Helsinki.
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