Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.
- Cindy Ross
Route 12 - Svedjeholmen to Sandlågan
From here, I was back on the main trail and had made a friend—a Turkish video game developer who lived in Stockholm who was also walking the High Coast Trail. We ended up walking together for about two hours, it was a nice break from the silence, but I think we were both glad to go our separate ways eventually.