Breheimen

We  departed Gudvangen at about 7:30pm (much later than planned, a recurring theme) for Jotunheimen National Park. And we got further delayed by some tunnel construction. And still no tent. But, after the success of the previous night, it seemed at least possible that the park would have at least a few more Jonny Taulens that we could crash with en route.

It'll only take four and a half hours, Google said.

Yeah, see how it kinda looks like we're driving through a bigass glacier? Our first inkling that Google's estimates might be a bit optimistic occurred just after Øvre Årdal, about 90 minutes in.

At the time it just seemed like an impressively steep mountain, but then we just kept driving up for I don't even know how long and it just kept getting weirder and weirder. Like, by about 20 min in we were convinced we were driving through the moon, and then it just got progressively more moon for the next several hours. I went into a bit of a car window photo fugue in a totally futile effort to capture how alien this drive was, so just going to do a big photo dump.

Sorry for my inability to filter these

I also have several video attempts, lol sorry

Delirious 1:30am rest stop selfie

At some point my moon mania let up a bit and I passed out. Cam heroically finished the drive sometime after 3am (he got to fully experience the <1h of actual darkness, it was light again by the time he woke me up), and then we slept in the rental Yaris in the Gjendesheim parking lot under mylar emergency blankets (never leave home without them!).