The world reveals itself to those who travel by foot
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Nothing was as scary as we thought, and everything was weirder and more friendly.
A short, unedited version of this was published on Notes last year. One of my more important learning experiences was when I was sixteen, and my best friend Christoffer and I biked from Sweden to the Åland Islands in Finland. We didn’t have any cell phone connection abroad, so my parents didn’t know where we were (and were admirably chill about that). And we weren’t allowed to stay on camping grounds, since we were underage (and also didn’t have any money), so we had to convince strangers to let us put our tent on their land. On the first night, after biking for eight hours, we sat in a…
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