POZ > TXL > OSL > BGO. I was smitten with Norway after a mere five minutes in Bergen Airport. It took a remarkable ten minutes to go from exiting the plane to driving a rental car out of the airport premises. Everyone I interacted with was helpful and likely spoke better English than most of us Americans. And I know it's an odd detail to highlight, but I really liked their bathroom hand dryers; they seemed much more advanced and sanitary than the puddle-accumulating Dyson models at San Francisco International Airport.

The road trip, documented in this custom Google Map, exceeded my expectations. Of course, it would have been nice to know that unlike Bergen, Eidfjord does not have any nightlife and that it costs $35 to cross the Hardanger Bridge (my travel buddies and I crossed it a handful of times to get the perfect vantage point, which frankly does not even exist without using a drone). But I would happily repeat my mistakes if the rest of the experience came with it.

Below are photos that I took with my iPhone during the road trip (with the exception of the cliché photo of me pensively staring into the fjord view)—all displayed in chronological order.