Steve is spending July 11–29 in Norway — two weeks working in Oslo, then five days crossing the mountains by motorcycle. This site is how you ride along from home. Here's everything worth knowing, in plain English.
🧭Getting around the site
Everything works from the row of buttons along the bottom of the screen. Tap one and the page changes — that's all there is to it. The ones you'll use most:
🏠 Home — the big picture: countdown, a live map of the route, the journey tracker, and today's weather in Norway.
📷 Photos — every picture Steve posts from the road.
📮 Updates — Steve's journal, plus the message board where you can write to him.
🏙️ Oslo — his week-by-week Oslo plans, and a map of where he's staying, eating, and wandering.
🏍️ Ride — the five motorcycle days: routes, live mountain webcams, weather radar.
The other tabs (Pack, Spend, Speak, Info) are mostly Steve's own trip tools — you're welcome to poke around, but there's nothing you need in them.
Photos appear newest-first, grouped by day. Just scroll.
Tap any photo to see it full-screen. Use the arrows (or swipe) to move to the next one, and the ✕ in the corner to close.
The most recent photo also shows up automatically near the top of the Home page — so a quick visit to Home always shows you the latest.
💡 Tip: photos marked 360° are special — tap one and you can drag your finger around inside the picture to look in every direction, like standing where Steve stood.
On Friday July 11 (flying out) and Wednesday July 29 (flying home), the 🏠 Home page changes on its own. The flight card lights up with 🔴 Flying Today and each flight shows a live line like:
✈️ En route · lands ~7:05am · 5h 35m to go
…with a little progress bar filling in as he crosses the ocean. When a flight lands, it turns green: ✅ Landed. No tapping needed — just open the site and glance.
Want the fancy version? Tap Track next to any flight to see the actual airplane moving on a live map.
From July 24 to 28, Steve trades the office for a Royal Enfield Himalayan named Bellatrix and rides Norway's most famous mountain roads — including Trollstigen's 11 hairpin bends and the Atlantic Ocean Road.
The live map on the Home page shows the planned route, and Steve's rides appear on it as he completes them.
On the 🏍️ Ride page, the Conditions tab has live webcams of the actual mountain passes — you can see the same weather he's seeing, updated every minute.
Each riding day has its own card under The Days with the route and what he'll pass.
💡 The mountains have patchy phone signal. If a day goes quiet, that's normal — updates usually arrive in the evening from the cabin.
At the very top of the site you'll see two little clocks:
The one with the Norwegian flag is the time where Steve is.
The one with the US flag is home time (East Coast).
Norway runs 6 hours ahead. So when it's 3:00 in the afternoon at home, it's 9:00 at night for Steve — probably not the moment he'll answer a message. His mornings are your middle-of-the-night; his evenings are your lunchtime.