Nov 26, 2014 | Allt för Sverige, Behind the Scenes
Click here for an introduction tangentially related to episode 6: When we arrived in Nyköping and opened the koffert with all the car paraphernalia I thought to myself, “My dad is gonna love this episode!” He has been tinkering with cars for as long as I can...
Nov 19, 2014 | Allt för Sverige, Behind the Scenes
(Here is the latest in my behind-the-scenes blog series. This is a long one – the Kiruna experience was one of our longest and fullest adventures. As always, I advise not reading it until after you’ve seen the episode, which can be viewed here.) Time to...
Nov 16, 2014 | Allt för Sverige, Music
Last summer I was in the mountains in Swedish Lapland and came upon a chapel at the top of a hill, with a view toward Sweden’s Mount Kebnekaise. The clouds had been blocking the view all morning but chose that moment to part – and I felt an overwhelming...
Nov 13, 2014 | Allt för Sverige, Behind the Scenes
Uppsala, where we filmed Episode 4, was a little hard for me to get in to initially but it ended up being one of my favorite locations we visited. We arrived at the koffert still feeling Leslie’s absence, and she was on all of our minds. I honestly believe...
Nov 5, 2014 | Allt för Sverige, Behind the Scenes
Warning: spoilers ahead! Don’t continue until you’ve watched episode three! As I’m trying to write up my thoughts for this episode they aren’t coming as freely as they did for the last two. I think that’s because this time, the things that ended up in the episode...