The weather was overcast this morning with the local mountain tops covered in mist. The weather somewhat detracted from the splendor of the view as we wound our way along the coast through inlet/fjord after fjord. Around lunch time the road took us to a ferry dock where we waited with an assortment of motorhomes, cars and trucks for the ferry crew to decide it was time to load up and get going. The ferry was carrying the traffic across a rather large expanse of water that had not yet been subdued with a long under water tunnel. I guess that will happen in time. Incidentally the ferry cost us approximately US$50 proving that motoring in this part of the world is not cheap.

At one point during the morning we stopped in the little town of Narvik to visit the tourist information office. We were interested to find out some information about paying for Norwegian Road Tolls. We had read that most toll stations are automated (no cash) and that there was a system in place for visitors to set up an account to pay by credit card. Well the young lady at the tourist office responded .. if your vehicle has non-Norwegian plates just ignore the toll booths. When questioned further she admitted that the toll company might send a bill to our home address (if they can find it) but that we could just ignore that too. I am not sure we trust this advice but have not yet come across any toll roads.

Mid afternoon we called into a Shell gas station in the town of Innhavet. We noticed what seemed like a good deal on the fuel price at 13.30 Norwegian Crowns (NOK is the abbreviation) per liter. It is usually more like 14.3 and up, so we saw this as a good deal. The place also supplied motorhomes with drinking water, had a dump station and even provided electricity for overnight stays. Back to the fuel, the exchange rate is about 6 NOK to the US dollar so 13.3 NOK is a little over $2.20/Liter or $8.0 per gallon.