I finally got ma new baby.
Samsung Galaxy S
I mainly got this so I could get GPS feature, and so I could have a big screen on my phone to stream videos from the Internet when I am traveling. Something to make time fly by.
The GPS I had some problems with in the beginning, but I found a website that helped me correct the wrongly factory set settings. And voila I was able to use the GPS.
I downloaded a small program for it called “Journey Tracker” which basically registers your GPS coordinates and then saves them. You can add your own markers so you can later make comments on your travels.
Click image below to read more about this application for Android phones:
The whole thing can be saved to a KML-file which you can open in Google Earth to view in any way you want, with the followed path visible. Handy little program. 
So today I made a recording using the GPS and Journey Tracker so you can see the route I’d like to call “Trip 3″ as it’s the third trip I have started walking of all my trips. I will at later stages post the KML-files and screenshots of the other trips as I re-walk them with the GPS
Here is today’s trip. Click image for big version to open.
From: Høybråten Train station
To: Løvenstad
Distance: 4.60 kilometers / 2.86 miles
KML-file for download: 16-35-25-Aug-2010.kml (save to desktop then open with Google Earth)
Marker 1: This is the marker right after start, right after I got up the “hill-from-hell”. Dread it every time!
Marker 2: Take a left turn at this crossroad
Marker 3: Lørenskog Train station / Starting point of the same trip, but then without the stretch from Høybråten.
Marker 4: Connection point to one of my other routes. Will show it in another article.
Marker 5: Connection point to alternate route, but I usually do a right turn here to get onto the path following the north side of the freeway.
Marker 6: Connection point to alternate route if I feel like going past the hospital, a few up hills in this route, so I seldom takes it. I take a left here and follow the path along the north side of the freeway.
Marker 7: This is just a marker I set to remind myself to tell u that it’s easy to take the wrong way here…you have to cross a bridge before doing the left turn, if you don’t you will start walking back and uphill if you take the left BEFORE the bridge. :P…so remember…walk over the bridge, then take left.
Marker 8: Should have been near the lake I pass on the left side of the freeway. Pass by an undertaker’s office, and this is also a point that connects with a different route where I continue straight east from Marker 5, instead of taking a right.
Marker 9: Here I take a right again, to get towards the freeway again. There is a region-soccer field right nearby here, one made of sand and one made of grass(artificial grass?..dunno)….which leads me to..
Marker 10: Bårlibakken…or as I call it “the devils hill”. It’s looong and not too steep…but it really hits u mentally, every bloody time. it’s the “ok-you-can-do-it-this-time-also-you-are-nearly-home”-hill. 
Marker 11: This is where Bårlibakken ends, and flattens out. There is an overpass over the freeway here, which as you can see I have taken. Alternatively I could continue straight forward, and pass by the nursery home for the elder, and the kindergarten. You have to appreciate the irony there..:P The Kindergarten next door to the elderly home. Hahahah. :) - The buildings are built in the same style so it’s like u can tell the kids, now u’r a kid and go here, when u go old you move across the road. zomg! 
Marker 12: Finish. Home. You can see some ZigZag patterns there, that’s me going to the grocery store to buy me some PepsiMAX on the way home.
That concludes for today.
OH BTW! - If you ever feel like coming to Norway to test out my routes, gimme a call.
Hugz from Boof
