{"id":2021,"date":"2018-08-23T08:34:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T06:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/?p=2021"},"modified":"2018-09-07T22:13:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T20:13:00","slug":"lamborghinis-ferraris-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/23\/lamborghinis-ferraris-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamborghinis, Ferraris and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2018-08-23<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Link to\u00a0<b><a href=\"https:\/\/whereisbobl.smugmug.com\/BLOG\/2018-08-23-laerdal-soren-ring\/\">PHOTO ALBUM:<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/2018\/2018-08-23-laerdalsorenring\/2018-08-23-laerdalsorenring.html\">http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/2018\/2018-08-23-laerdalsorenring\/2018-08-23-laerdalsorenring.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180822_1708167577085616230717975540.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2022\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180822_1708167577085616230717975540-525x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180822_1708167577085616230717975540-525x700.jpg 525w, https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180822_1708167577085616230717975540-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180822_1708167577085616230717975540-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180822_1708167577085616230717975540.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lardalsorenhotel.no\/\">lardalsorenhotel.no<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Special Agent Nancy has a knack for finding the unusual, unexpected or special.\u00a0\u00a0 I am thousands of miles overdue for an oil change and have been trying to figure out how to schedule one in.\u00a0 We left our hotel at noon today due to heavy rain. Not long into our ride we decided that we would cut the day short due to more rain.\u00a0 Lots of rain.\u00a0 \u00a0There was a town with a few hotels that looked OK.\u00a0 We were looking for a specific hotel.\u00a0 A few of the hotels had similar names so I stopped at one and Nancy went to another. The one I stopped at only had one room available.\u00a0 I waited and finally got a text saying &#8220;You have GOT to come here&#8221;.\u00a0 \u00a0I walked to where she was.\u00a0 Her bike was parked under an awning next to a Lamborghini and a Ferrari.\u00a0 The hotel was built in the 1800&#8217;s.\u00a0 The owner refurbished it.\u00a0 He also built a few cars, including the ones next to the bikes.\u00a0 He let these two wet bikers put the bikes in his garage AND let us change our oil there.<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/2018\/2018-08-23-laerdalsorenring\/lrg\/IMG_6201.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/2018\/2018-08-23-laerdalsorenring\/sml\/IMG_6201.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/2018\/2018-08-23-laerdalsorenring\/o\/IMG_6201.JPG\">full size<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>While getting $35 per liter oil at the Esso Station, the only place in town that carried the oil we needed, I met a guy with an old Thunderbird from Tennessee.\u00a0 We talked about great roads and cars and bikes.\u00a0 \u00a0He told me there was a woman in town from California with the same bike as mine.\u00a0 (That would be Nancy).<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/2018\/2018-08-23-laerdalsorenring\/lrg\/2018-08-22%2016.01.18.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/2018\/2018-08-23-laerdalsorenring\/sml\/2018-08-22%2016.01.18.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/2018\/2018-08-23-laerdalsorenring\/o\/2018-08-22%2016.01.18.jpg\">full size<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>At the hotel we wheeled the bikes into the garage.\u00a0 We changed our oils next to Lamborghinis, Ferraris and custom cars.\u00a0 He let us keep the bikes in there overnight to dry off.\u00a0 Fantastic guy.\u00a0 A real car guy and a motorcyclist too.<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/2018\/2018-08-23-laerdalsorenring\/lrg\/IMG_6211.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/2018\/2018-08-23-laerdalsorenring\/sml\/IMG_6211.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/2018\/2018-08-23-laerdalsorenring\/o\/IMG_6211.JPG\">full size<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/2018\/2018-08-23-laerdalsorenring\/lrg\/IMG_6210.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/2018\/2018-08-23-laerdalsorenring\/sml\/IMG_6210.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/2018\/2018-08-23-laerdalsorenring\/o\/IMG_6210.JPG\">full size<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The owner even rents out a Lotus for about $60 an hour so you can enjoy the roads in a real car.<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/2018\/2018-08-23-laerdalsorenring\/lrg\/IMG_6247.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/2018\/2018-08-23-laerdalsorenring\/sml\/IMG_6247.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/2018\/2018-08-23-laerdalsorenring\/o\/IMG_6247.JPG\">full size<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>This was a hotel I had written off as insufficient.\u00a0 \u00a0I was wrong again, as usual.<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/2018\/2018-08-23-laerdalsorenring\/lrg\/IMG_6216.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/2018\/2018-08-23-laerdalsorenring\/sml\/IMG_6216.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/2018\/2018-08-23-laerdalsorenring\/o\/IMG_6216.JPG\">full size<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>This engine would make a heck of a motorcycle engine ! ! ! !<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/2018\/2018-08-23-laerdalsorenring\/lrg\/IMG_6256.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/2018\/2018-08-23-laerdalsorenring\/sml\/IMG_6256.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/2018\/2018-08-23-laerdalsorenring\/o\/IMG_6256.JPG\">full size<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The owner organizes all kinds of car events here, with rides around what he is calling the Laerdals Sorenring. This sends you up some fantastic roads, with a few options for extending the ride. If you do the ride, you can buy a T-Shirt.<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/2018\/2018-08-23-laerdalsorenring\/lrg\/IMG_6251.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/2018\/2018-08-23-laerdalsorenring\/sml\/IMG_6251.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/2018\/2018-08-23-laerdalsorenring\/o\/IMG_6251.JPG\">full size<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>A long and lonesome highway.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/2018\/2018-08-23-laerdalsorenring\/lrg\/IMG_6238.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/2018\/2018-08-23-laerdalsorenring\/sml\/IMG_6238.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/2018\/2018-08-23-laerdalsorenring\/o\/IMG_6238.JPG\">full size<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Glaciers&#8230; Lots of Glaciers. This is an extention to the main route.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/2018\/2018-08-23-laerdalsorenring\/lrg\/IMG_6235.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/2018\/2018-08-23-laerdalsorenring\/sml\/IMG_6235.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/2018\/2018-08-23-laerdalsorenring\/o\/IMG_6235.JPG\">full size<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See the Photo album for a LOT more photos of the place and the wonderful roads in the area.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018-08-23 Link to\u00a0PHOTO ALBUM: http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/2018\/2018-08-23-laerdalsorenring\/2018-08-23-laerdalsorenring.html &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-pics","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2021"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2088,"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions\/2088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}