Good morning, it's a new month and we are driving further North toward where Mom grew up as a puppy. I think we are almost halfway there. 

So far, I've seen trees, a hundred thousand, no millions, no billions of trees, and an occasional mailbox indicating a house somewhere. We see no people these places look empty so Mom must have been pretty lonely when she lived here.

Mom says many of these houses are owned by Dutch and German people who don't have as many trees and they come here to spend their summer. 

So this is Swedens Florida I ask?  

Well, kind of Mom says but it's not like they're escaping cold winters because it already feels like fall here now.

 Hydropower is currently Sweden’s largest source of renewable energy and accounts for approximately 45% of Swedish electricity generation. Together with nuclear power,(Sweden has 2) hydropower is the foundation of the Swedish electricity system. Its operation causes no carbon emissions and the water is returned to the river after leaving the turbine. There are 76 run-of-river plants, most located in the North.

You can see a tower for power lines in the distance.

Here's a picture of my new friend having breakfast with me. He's been trying very hard to ignore me but with my charm (and his wife telling him) he finally gave me a meatball

No one had to tell this lady to share her breakfast she immediately fell for my  charming personality 

driving through these forests is boooooring and we're both hoping to see some life a moose a bear or anything but trees

So far we have had no luck and Mom says ALL wildlife has the right of way because Lucy could be seriously hurt hitting a moose. We stopped at this river in a village with one gas station and a couple of houses that also looked abandoned but Mom assured me they weren't. People go to work she said. Where I say? there's nothing here but forests. That's where they work Mom said

Mom HATES when I get this close to the edge, so I do it for a little excitement

Swedes love to bring picnic baskets and sit in the forest with their coffee and sandwiches so many places have these tables set up in the middle of nowhere.

We couldn't figure out how come there's a light pole here unless people come here in the winter too?. In the summer there's no need for a light since it never gets dark.

We finally stopped for the night by a river with a place to swim. I know there's no risk of Mom getting in that freezing water 

The Swedish icecream man must have gotten lost here. 

I killed him

The next stop is Mom's aunt's house where we'll visit for a couple of days, after that? nobody knows but we haven't been very lucky with good sunny weather lately so we may stay put until it changes.

Life i great

Henry