Day 7: Kiruna to Strömsund — I kept on driving, hunting an elusive patch of blue far off on the horizon that may have been in my imagination. And then, as I was driving into the small town of Strömsund shortly before sunset, the clouds finally parted. Read on...

During August 2008 I spent 17 days driving around Sweden in the single-minded pursuit of one good 360-degree panorama per day, posting the results daily to the Panoramic Sweden blog.