Notes from the North

Dear family, friends and anyone else who has been with me on my journey. It is on indefinite hiatus. My beloved father died last night. I'm on my way to my family. Thank you for being with me for so long.

Today's stage didn't offer anything special either. I just went from A to B. It was supposed to rain all day. It did at the beginning, but it soon stopped again. It always looked like it was going to rain, but it didn't. I can only be grateful for that. But the...

5 June I couldn't sleep at all last night. I felt as high as a kite. The thoughts made my head almost explode. I probably didn't get more than a couple of hours in total. At one point, I thought, 'This is not going to matter anymore. Then I just got up and got ready....

What a contrast to yesterday. Today was a very special spiritual day. It started off with it was supposed to rain all day. It did a little bit while I was getting ready to leave. So I put on rain gear and had the umbrella ready to go. But it didn't rain. On the...

Today was definitely the most challenging stage so far. I slept in and enjoyed the luxury of my cabin. Just after 10am Göran, the incredibly sweet man who lives just behind the hut and who brought me firewood last night, came and asked if everything was well and if I...

What a day today. I woke up early and felt bright eyed and bushy tailed. So I got going early. I didn't really know how far I would get today. There was the option to walk all the way to Spansåns fäboder, but that was about 30km. There is actually a cabin, but it's...

Today I had to decide whether to go shopping in the town I was passing through. I didn't really need anything other than tea and chocolate. Was it worth the 4km detour? Yes, I thought it was, because tea and chocolate are good for morale. Besides, I didn't want to...

After last night's heavy rain that I could hear drumming on the roof, I woke up to bright sunshine. That was quite promising. The first part of the trail, which is part of the Malingbo-Kloten circuit turned out to be newly marked and easy to follow. It wasn't as...

43 Why It was definitely a better day today. Even though it was raining. Over the years I've read a lot of books about people who went on long-distance hikes and how they fared. And they all describe a dip in their mood after about 4-6 weeks. That's not so strange...

29 May Today, for the first time during my walk, I wished I could be somewhere else. Today I just missed my family so much. They will be together until Sunday because my two little nephews are being baptised. Today they all gathered together. And of course I want to...