Reading about adventures while the three children lie in bed is one thing; setting off alone is another. Her longing for travel pulls her to Norway, and her deepest wish is to feel at home in nature with a bike and a tent – a challenge for a family mother. In the summer of 2009, Angelika Wilke cycles from southern Norway over mountain passes and Europe’s largest high plateau, the Hardangervidda, into the land of fjords and all the way to the puffin colony on the tiny island of Runde in the North Atlantic. She brushes her teeth by a lake where ice floes float, receives unexpected late-night visitors at her tent, and meets people with very individual perspectives on life. Suddenly, the adventure is tangible, but the longer she travels, the more right her daring undertaking seems. As she continues through the Sunnmørsalps and the Ottadal, the cycling nomad realizes: Tr.