Such a long drive.

According to both the locals and Google maps the drive from Oslo central station to Skei should have taken us about 6 1/2 hours. Add to that time an hour for a nap and about an hour for dinner, bathroom and smokes breaks, plus two hours due to heavy snowfall and it's more like a ten hour trip. Included in that drive were some beautiful towns and some quirky wooden carvings at gas stations followed by seriously the most terrifying experience any driver can have. Taking a ferry across a fjord in a manual car. All I could do the entire ferry ride was hope that my emergency break didn't go and cause my car to lurch forward down the ramp into the back end of the next car. But all in all the actual drive wasn't that terrible despite ferries and snow on winding mountain roads. Now that we are here though I can honestly say that the bed here looks to be either the strangest or the most comfortable bed in the world.