Tuesday, May 2, 2023

May Day Meatballs

Didnt really do too much today.  Slept in late, napped more in the afternoon.  However the Mayday car parade went past our hotel so we got to watch a bit just by stepping outside.  

There were several epa-traktors.  Karl told us about these.  Its basically a loophole for underage drivers to drive.  Like probably most places farm kids need to be able to drive farm equipment so they make allowances.  In Sweden they do it by making it so lower ages (15) can drive vehicles that cant go over 30kph.  That means if you can reduce the capable speed of any car or truck to 30kph you can drive it and you have to put a red triangle on the back.  So kiddos take a regular car and tune it wayyy down to make it legal and then drive on main roads, slowing all the other traffic down to their miserable speed.  Fucking jävla epa-traktorer alltså!  And then cherry on top for one such clunker was a confederate flag on the bag, just that extra dash of trash :)

But majority of it was just classic cars, pretty interesting though didnt stay for longer than 20 minutes.  I think it was at least 1.5 hours, since we could hear it going outside.

Karl stopped by for the beer and bag of girlscout cookies we brought and said our goodbyes.  Went back to the same pub for more meatballs since Sarah was mad I ate half.  She loves swedish meatballs so this was pretty peak travel food.

After that we packed up to prep for basically pur last day.  As im writing this we're at the station waiting for the train to Stockholm.  So now im getting in these last blogs each morning instead of night.

One of the questions Ocean asked us yesterday was if people normally blog in the US. Noooo...just old people idk if kids even know what blogs are now.  Kind of a developer thing too, but Im not that cool.

Our weird tv remote representing how we watched tv and slept most of the day
House on left is where we slept and is also the old train station as seen in these pics inside
Possible epa-traktor seen in the wild.  Though I dont see the red triangle so maybe its just a clunker









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