I hiked around ~460 km in the arctic circle and biked ~250 km around an island in the Baltic Sea. I camped with sheep and reindeer, alongside rivers, lakes and beaches, in an old prison, a theater, on people's porches and in an emergency hut 1700 m up a mountain during a white out storm on the eve of my birthday. I've met numerous unique characters along the trail and walked with the finest Englishman to have graced the Nordkalotten. I may have not ventured to a mountain with a dragon inside full of gold, but these 5 past weeks in Sweden have been my 'There and Back Again; A Burnt Out PhD Graduate's Tale'