European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 15, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Though driving along Norway s Arctic Highway is a demanding task especially during the Winter the scenery is rewarding. The danish town of Fredericks Havn where the a amps duo caught a ferry. The lounge aboard the ferry to Oslo Norway was a popular place. Occasional patches of ice dotted our path. The patches soon connected and the leisurely driving of the previous Day vanished. This required rapt attention. Quot i m probably driving More cautiously than i need to Gus i told my companion. He said to do whatever i thought was Best. The Highway closely hugged the mountains it was easy to notice the ice formations hanging from the Cliffs a silent motionless waterfalls stopped dead in their tracks by a lingering breath of Arctic air. Soon on a downhill righthand curve i was saying to Gus Quot we re out of  1 he car had not responded to my Subtle nudge As i entered the curve. We were sliding into the Blind turn and across the Center of the Road picking up Speed. The guard rail approached and ultimately arrived. I assume there was a loud Yelsh. I did t hear it preoccupied As i was with the Beautiful norwegian landscape on the Downside of the guard rail. After gingerly pulling the car to the other Side of the Road we changed the tire declining help trom norwegian Drivers who to our dismay came to Complete unswerving slops on the ice covered slope speeding off again after being told we were Fine we wondered How do they do that our answer came about 150 carefully driven Kilometres later at a service station in trondheim Norway s third largest City. The station attendant who we asked to sell us a tire looked at our flattened one. You need the tires with spikes he told us. I looked at the car parked near us. Around the outside and inside Edge of each tire were dozens of tiny Metal studs protruding a fraction of an Inch from the Black rubber. That explained the Lack of Salt or Sand tossed on the Road and the Carefree driving style of the norwegians. We began to understand the North. And the ways of e-6. Within the Arctic Circle there is no other Highway in the world to compare with e-6. Greenland is virtually Road less so far North. Canada has a few minor roads that penetrate the Polar Circle. The alaskan Highway is not nearly As developed above the 66.5 degrees latitude that Marks the Circle. Starter by the norwegians in the 10 a the Road was not completed until world War ii by the occupying forces of nazi Germany who took time out from world Conquest to erect a Monument to their achievement where the Highway crosses the Art tic cirt be. I Highway 1-6 seems unaware of its stature. A nation s main Highway should he a Broad and husky Road. 1-6 is Otten no More than a narrow Blacktop. Instead of skirting Small towns like important roads Are supposed to Rio this Road is sometimes their main Street. People Park along it to visit the drugstore for crying out loud in that sense it is like a great Highway of the past once called americans main Street get your Arctic kicks on route i -6. A the Union with the guard rail and the Purchase of the new tire hindered our Advance continued on 10 March 15, 1990 stripes Magazine 9