2/3 of the way to Double Wars

Three days ago I declared Chapter Five as done as it will be if this project is only going to be a Masters Thesis, adding a footnote saying that 33 LA-ICP-MS composition maps of my rock samples was too ambitious, and doing the data processing required for the remaining samples is beyond the scope of the project, but the record of the analyses done is being retained as an indication of how much information is available to kick start future work in this field.

Tuesday was all about cooking and packing for the event.

Wednesday during the day was the same. See a photo of the loaded van here:

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Wednesday at 17:30 we drove 35 minutes the wrong direction, to take the cats to their vacation home while we are gone. They will live upstairs at Keldor’s dad's house (which features views out the window of hundreds of birds,since his dad feeds the birds many kg of seed daily), and our friend Þórólfr, who is sadly not attending Double Wars, but happily lives a short walk away, will drop by every day to feed them. (Keldor’s dad is allergic to cats, so he prefers not to be the one feeding them).

Then we returned home to get the book we'd forgotten (for reading aloud as we drive. I walked into the bedroom, and stepped into a huge pile of cat puke. Ick! Glad we found it while still fresh, and it didn't sit there for nearly two week while we were gone. Poor Skaði, I think she stress-eats, and didn't like us packing and loading the car. But when she eats too much dry food at once, it doesn't stay down. Will try to remember next time to take away the dry food dispenser next time we pack for an event. Bad enough she is stressed, no point in making her puke, too.

We finally started driving at 20:16 Wednesday evening, which is a good time of day, at this time of year, for wildlife sightings. The log for that evening reads:

1 rådjur
8 kronhjort
6 mufflon
1 rådjur
2 rådjur
2 rådjur
2 rådjur
1 rådjur
6 kronhjort
2 rådjur

We reached the town of Harmånger, south of Sundsvall at 01:53 (I think that 5.75 hrs to do what google says is 5 hours of driving time is good, given at least three stops for toilet), where we slept for the night on the couch in the basement of a business owned by someone Keldor knows, who had asked us to pick up a package for delivery at Double Wars, and who was nice enough to offer the location for sleeping (along with the code for the door, so no one need be disturbed at that hour).

We got a good 5.5 hours sleep, and started driving at 07:57 on Thursday. Far fewer animal sighting during a day-time road trip, but lots of other distractions. The day's log says:


1 rådjur
1 rovfågl
2 rådjur

2 runestones
1 church ruin
1 ring borg

3 second hand/antique stores

Photo of the ruin: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02zthotBncandTa76uSp5iXHpGWfBxnju97dcbWbsf46SK2yqSbSri77k2m9D4swfdl&id=100000110936694

We also picked up a package in Linköping to be delivered at Double Wars, and arrived at Keldor’s Sister's house in Vadstena around 19:00. So we did 5.75 hours driving time, supplemented by lots and lots of fun date adventures.

Google says we have 4.75 more hours driving time to site, which officially opens in 8.5 hours. Should be another fun day, followed by an amazing event.