In Italy the Italians take a 2 week vacation on August. The whole country shuts down for what feels like a month. Everyone goes to the beach or the mountains or anywhere but where they spent the rest of the year. They call it Ferragosto. In the spirit of that I have taken August off from writing. August for me was busy and fantastic!
The first half of August was spent riding a bike around Norway. It was a fantastic experience and can’t wait to do it again! The country side was just fantastic. Everywhere you look there was new vistas and views of great geology landscape. I’m sure I didn’t take enough pictures but the ones I did take could teach a 101 lecture tomorrow. It was great! After being trapped in the middle of the continent for far too long it was great to spend 3 whole weeks along the coast. The islands where beautiful, the sun never set, and most of the people where very nice and friendly. It the country wasn’t so expensive I would gladly go back in a heartbeat! We had a fantastic adventure that climaxed with climbing the huge hill to the Nordcap. The most Northern point in Europe one can reach on 2 or 4 wheels. The weather was nothing but a cloud that day which is for the best or wise we would not have come home! I can honestly say adventuring in a new way with bicycles was a huge hit. We loved it and plan on doing it again and again for many years to come!
The pictures don’t come close to doing it justice.
Sadly with all great adventures they must come to an end. So it was back to the grindstone and back to the rig. But of course it’s never just that simple. Work has its own adventures too. The most resent one is of a pure geologic type. The area we are drilling in has very steep structure. That means the zone we want to stay in changes in depth quite drastically. Instead of our normal changes of like 2-5’ this well changed 40’ over the course of two miles. It makes for far more exciting and busy work!
So there we have it the real world was shut out for a while but it comes screaming back in with full force.
