Finland……there’s so much that I could say about the stark contrast between Washington State and Rovaniemi, Finland, they might as well be different planets. Living so far north on the boarder of the Arctic circle we would head south to take a vacation in Alaska. At the Winter Solstice we had only 1 hour of sun as it barely dips over the horizon and living in Finnish Lapland we live in the coldest place in Europe and it’s built a tough and reserved culture. This last weekend both Jenni and I were invited to stay up at our friends Ilkka and Tuija Kauppinen cabin near Yllästunturi one of a handful of ski resorts two hours away from our home. We left home around noon with the temperatures dipping to -32 as we drove through endless open forest covered with all the snow that had fallen since mid December as it doesn’t rain during the winter in Lapland. Making up to there Cabin late in the afternoon.
Off in the distance we could see some of the different options in Yllas at another time.
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