Roadtrip towards St Egon

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A few weeks back a friend in Gothenburg suggested we come down for their St Egon event and Baronial investiture. This sounded like fun, but isn't it the week before Crown Tournament, in Finland? (Which we are attending) Nope, it it two weeks before Crown!

 

Then I heard Petronilla say that she wants to go to St Egon. So I opened a group chat with her, Þórólfr, and Keldor. Shall we go? Four fit in Þórólfr's car. It is an 14 hour trip *not counting stops, of which there woul be plenty. 

 

So we all convinced our respective employers to give us Friday off, and a plan was made. 

 

Since Reengarda has practice on Thursdays, fighting on one week, and archery the next, we decided to start driving after practice. 

 

So on Wednesday we packed a chest of clothes and accessories and I baked road trip poptarts filled with homemade applesauce, walnuts, and spices. This morning Keldor took the clothes chest, feast gear box, and bag of bedding with him to work, and I worked from home, so I could turn the last of the pie crust dough into veg and chickpea pasties, with an almond and cheese sause. Yum! I packed some pasties and some poptarts for this trip, and the rest are in the freezer for the next trip. 

 

After work Keldor took stuff to Þórólfr's, they loaded the car and Keldor took the archery stuff to practise. Meanwhile, I packed the soft ice chest, a sewing project, toiletries, and the massage pistol (an essential accessory for a long road trip) and did laundry, washed the cat's water fountain, etc.

 

After practice Keldor drove Petronilla and her stuff to Þórólfr's and left them to load her things to the car while he drove our car home. A while later they caught up, we squeezed me and my last minute things into the car, and we started driving at 22:00.

 

We stopped the first time at the petrol station in Umeå, where they have a selection of locally produced food, so the others all bought dried reindeer, and I got a bag of dried wild blueberries, as the one I bought there last road trip is almost gone, and they are good in my museli. 

 

We probably won't stop again for a couple of hours.