Roadtrip 2014: Ängsö morning, installing solar power and relaxing

Still in Ängsö: Early morning and time for breakfast. Using favorite müsli in a cup, and then pouring water on it. Sounds pretty bad to use water instead of milk or processed sour milk but.., nah, it´s ok, I´m used to it. Along that goes some pretty fresh fruit like peach.

Breakfast-time! Dry food, a peach and water works when you don't have a fridge with you

Well. I do have a icebox with me, but don't use it for anything other than bed support you can see in the picture. You also see the depth of the mattress from Ikea. Time to connect the extra battery to the main power, (generator and solar power). I didn't have time to do it earlier (before heading out). I have some common tools with me. There is always more time when you´re out on the road somehow.

I´ve made this chipboard for the solar power, I have showed it to you earlier., That is.I have used on other road-trips.  Solar controller (and some switches I rarely use).

Solar Power i now connected, and charging. Yey! :) The led for the sun is shining! About 13.65 volt on the extra leisure battery. Normally about 12,7 volt when not charging it.

There were bugs flying all over the place.. I´m not so found of them.. (to put it nicely). They are brakes (broms in Swedish), probably not called brakes in your country, perhaps more like gadfly or horsefly in you language.. :) However, they were not attacking me! Very strange, there were like piece between us, they were just checking me out. Their stomach seemed full somehow. I was really glad for that!

Okey, so to recap, it is early morning, the sun is low,  and I've put the car in the shade of a tree (and a toilet house). Then using pretty long cables to put the solar panel in the sun. Works great to have a portable adjustable solar-panel. Totally recommend it.

Next I sat down in the car for a couple of hours writing on the computer while listening to some great podcast on the carstereo (earlier downloaded from the Internet, mp3 style). Free power from the sun. I really enjoy it! Quiet solitude. This is what I love. Relaxing and contemplating. After a while people started showing up to look at the caste nearby, and they probably thought I was a strange fellow.. with a bed in the car :-) (not normal for people moldered in a box)

Roadtrip 2014: Sleeping place Ängsö

I decided to move, go back. Cause I remember driving past a smaller rv on the way to Långholms bridge, and I thought it might be nice with some company.

However, they were gone when I got back.

Woila, I this will be the spot for the night.

Late evening, the sun is going down. I´m flexing my chest or something.. pathetic..

Listening to James Altucher and Arianna Huffingtong podcast, downloaded from the Internet. Making some notes.. Great program!

So what to eat this evening?  PP.. Peanuts and Peach :) Yeah I know.. not to healty.

Then later I decided to go for a little walk.. and look what I found, cows.. the small ones were curios of me.

This picture is with flash. Unfortunately I must have destroyed their night vision, hope you can forgive me cows?

In the middle of the night some kids with cars came AGAIN!! WTF... Two cars came putting their headlight at me (when I was sleeping, waking me up). Steerign me down. I looked out behind the curtains.. And after a while they started to burnout in the gravel, spinning around and around with their cars (old Volvo 740), and after a while they drove away. Sounded like they were looking for a barbecue or something.. After that I had a hard time getting back to slep. This is how a tired man looks without any sleep. #Zombieman.

Early morning, the car getting warm by the radiation from the sun. The curtain helps keep the heat from sun out, reflectix would be even better. So nice to lay and read, until the car get too warm from the sun. After a while I decided to move the car into the shades.

Sleeping next to a toilet is always nice in case the stomach get bad. But that rearly happens actually. You have to get to know your body on a roadtrip.

Decided to take a walk.

Walking bridge towards the lake Mälaren. Nice!

I found a Birdtower looking at the sea Mälaren. I Did not have any binoculars with me though. Very nice scenary!

Me enjoying the view from the bird tower. Listening to Tom Shadyac and James Altucher podcast on my phone. I can recommend that episode!

Went back to the and found som Old oak tress. Used to make ships once upon a time. They were not far from the caste.

Parking lot I "tried" sleeping in. You can almost see the marks in the gravel of the spinning cars that woke me up.

This is the Ängsö Castle. When I was young my classmates and I went tent-camping nearby this place and did ghost walking around here in the middle of the night, scaring the S%!# out of each other. :-) Walking three laps around the church and knocking on its door twelve a clock in the night and so on..  :) Happy memories! And obviously we survived! Yes there are lots of rumors about "ghosting" of this area.

To be continued..