Kim here 👋🏼
Yes, I did enjoy my stay in Abisko this winter. A lot!
But the goals I had set for myself to achieve while there were too much, so I ended up not doing as much as I had hoped to do. It's a fine line between having goals that drive and motivate you, and having goals that stress you out and consume you.
I did understand that it would be very tough to try having a long-distance relationship. Initially I believe we thought it would be easier to meet more often, but heck, Abisko is really far away! 17 hours by train - one-way.
Also, that the trains didn't work for most of the season made it much more difficult.
I also thought I would make more friends.
But for an introvert living in a tiny space shared with other people, while at the same time never working the same schedule as any other person there that I wanted to hang out with, made it harder than I had set out to believe.
The upcoming surgery also caused me a lot of stress. Not just the surgery itself but also how to get to the appointments 1 hour from my hometown (16 hours away), getting time off, getting tickets... I ended up in a moment 22 situation where I could not change my residency nor get help with getting to my appointments on the almost other side of the country, and had to solve all of it on my own.
I was also so excited about learning how to Nordic ski. I rented equipment for the whole season and brought up to Abisko. But in the end I couldn't ski as much as I had hoped, because the boots kept breaking and there was nothing holding them together, neither tape nor glue. Not for long anyway. In the beginning of the season, I also had to cancel a lot of plans due to storms - of course during _exactly_ my days off from work, which was quite demoralising.
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But was it worth it?
Yes.
Trying something new is always worth it.
The lessons you learn about yourself are worth it. I never expected myself to enjoy working with people, but this ended up being my favourite job I've had so far.
I'm so glad I had the courage to try.
Nothing lost.
But a lot gained.
How to continue from here?
Who knows.
But I'm sure it will be an interesting journey ahead too.
Norge på langs Q&A: The future
Norge på langs Q&A... Part 5
Norge på langs Q&A: Hardest/easiest sections?
Norge på langs Q&A, part 3: More pack questions! 🎒
Norge på langs Q&A part 2: Backpacks!
Re-upload of our first Norge på langs Q&A because the other was cut off halfway through 😊
The cost of long-distance hiking 💰
One of the probably most asked questions, and with good reason, is about the budget for a long hike like our Norge på langs hike. How did we afford it? What was the cost?
Not many people take their time to really put together a list of ALL expenses from a long trip like this, but we went through our bank account and compiled every single expense - from November the year before we started, when we bought some gear with Norge på langs in mind, until the ticket for the journey home, and the body measurement that we did once we were home again. We actually did an “InBody measurement”, which gives you information about how many percent fat and muscles your body consists of, how much you weight, and how it is distributed over the body.
For a full list of all our expenses from our Norge på langs hike, you can go to the link in our bio. Here you can create a filter, and filter the different expenses by different categories. How to create a filter? Press ”Data” - “Filter view” - “Create new temporary filter view”. Pick the category you want to see, and at the bottom you will find the total amount for that category.
Full NPL Teaser!
First YouTube-video this evening 👏
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Norge på Langs Teaser - Part 5 ✨
Last teaser! First full video on Monday 🥳
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