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ROVANIEMI, FINLAND…..Pt III

AURORA BOREALIS The Northern Lights Click here for my recommended musical accompaniment to these images. It only took me three and a half months to finally get up close and personal with my very own display of the oft elusive but absolutely stunning and trippy aurora borealis, or northern lights. People come from all over the world just to catch…

ROVANIEMI FINLAND……Pt IV.

  No, no, the OTHER left…. Biggest Bull Moose I have ever seen. Enormous. Must of been AT LEAST 1200lbs minimum as it walked right out in front of me. Just stood there, snorted, steam rising from it’s massive flared nostrils, and stared right at me. I could see him tense up, like he was getting ready for a charge.…

FINLAND…….Pt III

  4 Years in…. I parked my bike by this old fishing trawler in Apalatchicola Florida in the Gulf of Mexico. A passerby stopped to chat with me, mentioned he had a similar model of BMW motorcycle and then asked me if I wanted him to take my picture. At the time I didn’t give much thought to the significance…

FINLAND…….Pt II.

Dear Santa…. Rovaniemi Finlands most notorious, or in this case, well known resident is of course, Santa Claus. But the real story and meaning of how Santa Claus came to be was only brought to my attention recently by the president of Karu MC, Hekki. He prefaced his email with a warning that came along with the information he enclosed…

FINLAND……….Pt I.

WARNING!!. This article contains GRAPHIC IMAGES of a Winter Wonderland from Norway and Finland that could be hazardous to your travel plans. Viewer discretion is advised. LAPPLAND, SUOMI.   E8 South of Kautokeino, Norway. * Norway, leaving the best for last. Of course it did, wouldn’t you know it. I got some of the best and most spectacular shots of the…

NORDKAPP to ROVANIEMI, Finland.

“I should be there in no time, just follow the squiggly blue line”, I mumbled. Only 730 km, easy. Under normal conditions. In any season other than Winter it would be. And without hundreds of twists, turns and mountain passes. Oh, and without riding on an Ice Hockey rink all the way down to Alta. AND without being a photographer…