From a strange planet - 44

Today we once again follow highway E39. Supposedly it is 1100 km long and runs through six counties and fifty municipalities. Total travel time is around 21 hours, including seven different ferry  connections. But we travel just a fragment of it's length, because we take several side roads. During our trip we see some beautiful landscapes, far away from the cities. And we explore the local dead ends of streetview.

 E39 Osestad - Google Streetview

In this webcam view we see a hilly landscape and we see the main road going off to the left. But on the right we see an unpaved rural road going up the slope. We cannot follow this road on Streetview and we don't know where it's going. This gives some mystery to this picture, especially because this side road is obscured by trees and we can't see it clearly.

The side road is partially hidden and the feeling of mystery is intensified in winter, when the snow has fallen. The road looks more inaccessible and unused. It must go to a very lonely place. 

On Google Street View we can follow this side road for a short while, before it branches off to the right and we lose sight of it. But still, we don't see where it goes.

While exploring the surroundings we see beautiful fjords and birch trees with autumn colours. The landscape looks calm. Somewhere here the endpoint of the side road is hidden from view.

Could it look like this?

The local museum has a nice mysterious picture form this area.

Lindesnes Bygdemuseum - Den gamle alma i Osestadbakken

The photographer is unknown.

E39 Vatland - Google streetview

We see a tunnel where nothing ever happens. In this picture the seasons change but the view stays practically the same. In winter there are some rays of sunlight that illuminate the snow and the box, but otherwise nothing much happens.

We are far away from everywhere. There are some houses in the woods and they are far from the road. They hide in the woods and watch us with weary eyes. They are inaccessible from Google Streetview. They sleep in winter.

E39 Rekevik - Google streetview

We see a wide asphalt road going off toward the horizon and a wide road going off to the left. We are not interested in these. We are interested in the side roads. Two side roads are going up the hill, one to the left and one to the right. There is a house with parked cars.

In winter, when snow falls, left road looks darker and more mysterious as it vanishes into the wooded hills. We cannot follow that road on Streetview.

But we can go right and we can go a uphill until we finish at a dead end in the woods. I love those silent landscapes. Maybe I'm the only one who sees this stored data, who sees the information in this frozen landscape of Streetview. Here I share it with you,

The local dead ends of Streetview

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