As I´d written earlier; Per Ola and I was invited to participate on the spring 2010 MSDN Live tour of Norway.
We´d been looking forward to this for a while and I must say that we were quite disappointed when we saw the news about the volcano eruption on Iceland and it´s effect on air travel…
Never lost behind a wagon we decided to drive. This is a 6 hour drive from Oslo if you drive smart, if you drive stupid it´s a 14 hour drive… Guess witch one we picked?
Images from the trip, Car on board computer stats, Per Ola at the Microsoft stand and the snow blizzard we ran into triving over the mountain (twice)
We picked the stupid one. All-in-all stats for the Stavanger MSDN Live road trip was leaving Oslo at 3 pm Thursday, going through 15 hrs effective driving to Stavanger, 1,5 hour of sleep at the hotel, 8 hours at the Windows Phone stand at Stavanger Forum and a 5,5 hour drive back to Oslo. An intense 30 hour period and i was most pleased to hit the sack at midnight Friday after the 1469 km drive.
Couple of important lessions learned for future road trips:
- If your travel route involves ferries; check their timetables! Do not drive for 2 hours to find out you have to drive 2 hours back because there´s no ferries going after 6 pm.
- Passing mountains; Check if the roads are open and not closed for the winter…
- Also respect convoy signs!
At the Forum we met a lot of people eager to learn more about both Windows Phone and about Windows Phone Developer Community. We also had a talk with NNUG about doing some common sessions on the use of Silverlight. Looking forward to talk more about this in Bergen and Oslo.
Next weekend I´m going to Bergen and I hope air traffic is back up. Also looking forward to GeekBeer on thursday.
