I got homesick for the first time while I was in Aalborg. It looked strangely like San Francisco, and of all the things, that's what really got me. I didn't think it would be something looking familiar that would do it...

After a frantic dash to make it from my sleepy college town to the only ferry leaving for the next two days, I finally had the luck to score my own cabin. No roommates - what a treat! Got off the ferry in Oslo at 7:30 this morning with a friend I met last night, and we decided that Oslo wasn't really worth sticking around for. It was gray, threatening rain, and really kind of sterile and uninteresting. Too much like home (except for the rain part). Luckily, the Eurrail pass covers the scenic Oslo -to-Bergen train route. It really is amazing. The train goes along a fjord up past the tree line, past some glacier runoff, past a glacier, back down in to the trees... I've never seen anything like it. It was like Alaska, Ireland, and Scottish Highlands all rolled in to one. So I'm at a YMCA in a small Norwegian town called Bergen for tonight, and then I'll probably take the night train back tomorrow night.

In other news, I've suddenly discovered that I don't have the battery charger for my camera. I don't know where it got left... I haven't used it yet, so it's probably somewhere in California. Has anyone seen it?