The End of Wilderness

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We left our last Wilderness Way post at the Plateau of the circuit. A beautiful scenic place and not so bad a spot for lunch. The very next stop had 3 things for us, of which we only knew one.

The best item at any Loppis. Amazingly confusing and entertaining. He’s from Hawaii.

In Klimpfjäll, the first stop was at Norgefarargården, which I am guessing was just an old house. But for us, that means coffee, cake, and a Loppis! I guess we haven’t told you about Loppis’s yet.

So a Loppis is an antique sale / garage sale that they all have the same crap and every village has hundreds of them, I am guessing they just buy the stuff from others and sell it back to them. The game is count the Loppis signs. First to a billion wins.

Klimpfjäll also had the Trollstigen, which we later found out was the Wizards Way, a little path with stones, same as Märchenweg. And last but not least, the biggest surprise of all…

A waterfall! Who would’ve guessed? This one’s called Kullafallet.
Was another one just a bit upstream too 🙂
Up next was the 65 deg N marker. 1.3-1.5 degrees south of the arctic circle.

I didn’t take a picture of it, but even though the Sun did set… it did not get dark. At 2-3 a.m. the sky was a medium blue. Pretty cool, but crappy for sleeping or having any concept for when to wake up 😀

Next up was the Fiskonfallet waterfall. Kind of slowly decreasing in quality but we still like them.

And then our rest point for the night, right next to…

Trappstegsforsen waterfalls. Just when you thought the quality was like a customer software, boom!

Another classic of the photo being nothing like it. Was really magnificent and powerful and pretty and all the good stuff.

So the next morning was our last on the Vildmarksvägen. Todays theme was “couldn’t find it.” First stop was the “Water Sprite in the Stream” in Rönnäs. Didn’t know what it was and couldn’t find it. Second stop was a cafe in Vilhelmnia, no, not the zoo in stuttgart. Couldn’t find it.

Third times a try, next stop was the Caravan Museum in Dorotea. I believe as a campervan, this is mandatory.

Only had models from Polar, but still entertaining. They all had that… smell.
And then the Last Supper Sculpture room. Creeeeeeeeeepy, and smelled the the caravans. Although maybe it was us at this point.

Up next, the Wiks local souvenir store in Lajksjö. Either didn’t find it, or it was the ICA and corresponding Loppis. Nothing was bought.

In Fågelsta was Chainsaw art. This dude was pretty good and made a forrest full of them!
Better than Gartenzwerg!
There are quite a lot of them hidden in this photo

Only 3 more stops on the way, kinda wishing the tour wouldn’t end. Third to last was the Tåsjöberget viewpoint. While the Swedes are the best at making signs indicating when a traffic camera is coming up so no one gets a speeding ticket, they really got to work on their tourist signs. Couldn’t find it.

So we invented our own viewpoint.

Second to last was the Tvärfallet waterfall. Couldn’t find it. Couldn’t even hear it.

And finally the difficult to find Storfallet waterfall.

And bummer! That’s it! Still have a few things to share though!

The ride back.
The road back! Must go through canadialand!
The insanely massive pile of wood on the way back. This picture is about 1% of what they had.
The death storm on the way back. I’m impressed this picture captured that thing well. I didn’t want to drive into it.
The gas stations in the way back. We love how you get a picture of the Sheiks who are getting all the money. Look how happy they are!

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