Meet Les' Finnish gran… May 11, 2014

Here's baby Carrie wit… Jul 11, 2019

Carrie/Nonie grew up q… Jul 11, 2019

She married John Ceder… Jul 11, 2019

This is Nonie's Aunt H… Jul 11, 2019

Kalajoki, Finland is t… Jul 12, 2019

On the western edge of… Jul 12, 2019

Our hotel is the one o… Jul 12, 2019

I confess! I did NOT t… Jul 12, 2019

Here's Nonie again on … Jul 11, 2019

43 years later on July… Jul 11, 2019

We met at the cemetery… Jul 11, 2019

And here's the cemeter… Jul 11, 2019

Here's Les with Nonie'… Jul 11, 2019

Maija & her 3 children… Jul 11, 2019

Teemu married Satu, bo… Jul 11, 2019

Here's Johanna, Maija'… Jul 11, 2019

Johanna with her husba… Jul 11, 2019

Standing between Les &… Jul 11, 2019

Maija's nephew Rauno A… Jul 11, 2019

Maija doesn't speak En… Jul 11, 2019

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After the cemetery, we… Jul 11, 2019

A dedication to sailor… Jul 12, 2019

Kalajoki was a huge ce… Jul 11, 2019

Now it's a farming com… Jul 11, 2019

Logs were floated down… Jul 11, 2019

Kalajoki was founded i… Jul 11, 2019

Due to the the abundan… Jul 11, 2019

The yellow color was a… Jul 11, 2019

It feels like spring h… Jul 12, 2019

There's a deep water p… Jul 11, 2019

Here's the deepwater p… Jul 12, 2019

At this point, all we … Jul 11, 2019

The little town is rea… Jul 11, 2019

And here we are! Maija… Jul 12, 2019

The whooper swan is th… Jul 12, 2019

Could this be a cuckoo… Jul 12, 2019

Wow is this fun! We ar… Jul 12, 2019

Incredible telephone..… Jul 12, 2019

Maija shows us how it … Jul 12, 2019

Next we enter a small … Jul 12, 2019

Wish I'd looked for a … Jul 12, 2019

Another bedroom... Jul 12, 2019

My grandma had a mirro… Jul 12, 2019

Every room had a stove… Jul 12, 2019

I loved this little pa… Jul 12, 2019

And here's a picture o… Jul 12, 2019

The photo was taken in… Jul 12, 2019

c.1930: Hanna holding … Jul 12, 2019

Next stop: the kitchen. Jul 12, 2019

This bread stove was a… Jul 12, 2019

And this cooktop share… Jul 12, 2019

Outside again, the she… Jul 11, 2019

Across the field from … Jul 12, 2019

Another house in Old K… Jul 12, 2019

At Maija's niece's (Se… Jul 12, 2019

Maija wrote out her en… Jul 12, 2019

To be able to re-conne… Jul 12, 2019

Teemu & Raisa point to… Jul 12, 2019

Here's a picture of a … Jul 12, 2019

Our hostess, Seija (Ma… Jul 12, 2019

Sieja is quite an arti… Jul 12, 2019

Here's an example. I l… Jul 12, 2019

And another. I can't i… Jul 12, 2019

It's time to go...oh n… Jul 12, 2019

Here's our hostess, Se… Jul 12, 2019

We got back to our hot… Jul 12, 2019

Here's our hotel's sau… Jul 12, 2019

Complete with pool.... Jul 12, 2019

And showers. A big dif… Jul 12, 2019

That morning, we met T… Jul 12, 2019

There's a resident "ta… Jul 12, 2019

Here it is...another e… Jul 12, 2019

Want to hop on? Jul 12, 2019

After a nice hour ther… Jul 12, 2019

They only had one fish… Jul 12, 2019

So happy we did! This … Jul 12, 2019

On a little lake, with… Jul 12, 2019

And a great menu! And … Jul 12, 2019

Three happy Finns & me… Jul 12, 2019

Les & I split the 2 fi… Jul 12, 2019

Here's the salmon sala… Jul 12, 2019

Beautiful day again. W… Jul 12, 2019

Heading back to the Ou… Jul 12, 2019

Teemu called this "gra… Jul 12, 2019

At each crossing, ther… Jul 12, 2019

Sometimes small & some… Jul 12, 2019

The gas stations have … Jul 12, 2019

Fill it up! We are jus… Jul 12, 2019

And here we are, at Ou… Jul 12, 2019

What an amazing 20 hou… Jul 12, 2019