We’ve been in Finland for three days now. The travel over was pretty uneventful. From my house in Vermont I have to fly from Albany NY to Washington Dulles, and then across the pond to Frankfurt. In order to get to Vuokatti Finland we needed to fly from Frankfurt to Helsinki and then take a smaller plane to Kajaani. Kajaani is not such a big town…the airport consisted of one small building, one gate, and one baggage claim.

It feels a little weird to be home in Vermont during November. It’s been several years since I’ve been able to enjoy the fall training in New England. Because of the way the World Cups are scheduled this year we’re trying out a new approach travel that will have me going back and forth to Europe more times than normal, instead of just staying over for one big haul. In the past I’ve done some road trips that have lasted from Before Christmas until April without making it back to North America so this will be a little bit of a change, but I guess you don’t know what works best until you’ve tried everything.