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Home on the range

Date: 2004-06-27 19:23 UTC
Location: Near Husum, Germany

Wednesday we spent most of the day in Kalmar, visiting the castle and old city, then we set on to Karlskrona, suprisingly enough the weather good for most of the day, when we got to around 20km from Karlskrona it started to rain a little. In Karlskrona Skallen was kind enough to provide us with lodgings at his apartment, we also met Blixten who brought an extra mattress in between organizing his 50th birthday which would be on thursday, having got an impromptu invitation we changed our travel plans so that we would be able to participate the festivities. I also uploaded the previous journal and some photos using Skallens internet connection.

Thursday morning was gloomy but it didn't rain, last night Blixten had promised to show us the way to a motorcycle store so we could get better/warmer gloves for Taru (the light summer gloves were not very comfortable in rain) so after breakfast we went to Blixtens place to offer him a break on the chaos of organizing everything, we found good gloves at the second store and then back to city for lunch, after this we walked around the city center as there was a fair also. After this we went back to Skallens to change clothes and then took a bus to Blixtens place for the party. When we got to the bus it started raining, also the weather was rather windy which caused some problems with the tents but that didn't matter too much. At the party we also got to see Blixtens new bike (not yet in riding condition but almost).

Friday morning was beautiful in Karlskrona but not far away it started to rain, rest of the day was spent in rather heavy rain which left us soaking wet and very tired when we finally reached our hotel in Denmark (Vingsted, 18km from Billund) around 9pm. Regardless of this the great bridges (Øresund and Stora/Lille Bælt) were rather impressive.

Saturday started as gloomy but around noon it got sunny and continued that way until late in the evening, we spent the day in Legoland which was great fun, got some bricks to take back home as well...

This morning we got up around 8 and left the hotel about 9:30, we took a scenery route down the west coast of Dennmark (thought the wather was far from perfect, luckily it did not rain much, mostly light showers and drizzle), around 8 we found a motel near Husum (which was where we had planned to spend the night) and set in for the night. Tomorrow we ride to Rostock and take a ferry back to Finland.

Radios

In the heavy rain after some hours water found it's way to both my intercom-helmet connector and Tarus intercom-helmet or intercom-radio connector causing severe glitching so we disconnected them intercoms and continued without, this proved that the connectors should we switched to truly weatherproof ones (though they tend to be bulky and expensive) or sealed somehow (which means disconnecting is not really possible anymore) if reliability in bad weather is an issue, as stated before our radios themselves are weatherproof. As an experiment I have changed my radio connector to IP67 (slightly overkill but the next class of readily available connector was not good enough) rated one (mostly because there was some problem with the original connector, the connection is made under the seat, so it's relatively safe from the elements), it works like a charm but is a lot more bulky (especially much longer) than the original, this might be a problem with the helmet which has quite short lead to the connector in that en

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