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🗓️ 9 September 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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0:00.0 | Ever think about hiking Sweden? What a beautiful hike that would be. We've seen the pictures, |
0:04.6 | we've seen the beautiful winter pictures, but what about backpacking? Let's find out what that would be like. |
0:18.8 | Today I want to welcome to the podcast the author of the book John's Dad Hikes the Kuzland Den Trail and I know I probably messed that up already the King's Trail in Sweden. John |
0:24.6 | Thalaney welcome the popular hikes. Hey it's a Koonsladon it's real hard to |
0:31.2 | say a lot of people just call it the King's Trail that's what it |
0:34.4 | translates to literally it's a beautiful trail you know not sure how far you want me to |
0:40.5 | go into that I could talk for hours about how beautiful it is. |
0:44.2 | We'll get into that but you know before we started at the interview I asked you to make sure so I |
0:48.5 | made sure I had the right pronunciation and then I went to I'm reading it and that's a mistake I make I shouldn't have read it |
0:53.6 | I just like kept it in my head and it doesn't look the same as it sounds that's for sure |
0:58.0 | yes no if I just like locked it in my head okay no this is what it is instead of it's like |
1:01.8 | looking down at the paper and and |
1:03.6 | botching it up but yeah. |
1:04.8 | Yeah, John let's start with this you're here in the United States and you go over |
1:11.4 | to Sweden to do some backpacking and do some hiking. |
1:14.4 | Let's start first with what inspired you to do that to pick Sweden, you know, there's destinations |
1:19.6 | all over the world obviously. So what was Sweden? What made that special for you? Well back we're |
1:24.4 | going to go back into the 70s for that. I was an exchange student with American |
1:28.6 | Field Service or AFS and I spent a year going to high school in Sweden. |
1:34.3 | And so that's my connection to Sweden. |
1:36.1 | I've got two families and lots of friends over there. |
1:39.8 | And about 15 years or so ago, I first heard about Koonslaiden or the Kings Trail. |
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