{"id":634,"date":"2009-06-17T23:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T21:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onmytodd.org\/?p=634"},"modified":"2015-11-17T14:56:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T13:56:03","slug":"orby-stocken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/?p=634","title":{"rendered":"\u00d6rby – Stocken"},"content":{"rendered":"

Woke up early and noticed another tent and bicycle some hundred meters from mine. It was a German guy on a six-day-tour around southern Sweden.<\/p>\n

Left at half past 9 and changed plans en route. Originally I wanted to go to or near V\u00e4nersborg, at the lake V\u00e4nern, Swedens biggest lake. It turned out a bit difficult to find a direct route that avoided highways, so I decided to go more westish, circumnavigate G\u00f6teborg, and then go even more to the west onto some islands (over bridges, and tomorrow by ferry).<\/p>\n

Today’s roads were quite diverse. From single-file-only hilly dirt tracks to massive main roads and cycle paths next to autobahn-like highways. Through beautyful valleys, close to a water fall, through some of G\u00f6teborg’s poorer and richer suburbs.<\/p>\n

Close to Stocken I noticed a statue of a uber-sized deer with a Kangaroo head at the road side. I wondered why anyone would put it there. When cycling past I saw from the corner of my eye that the statue moved. I’d seen my first elk.<\/p>\n

Reached Stocken on the island of Orust after 162km.<\/p>\n