"It can be done", I was convinced. "If only I went eastward as far as east takes me", I thought. "All the way around the world - and eventually return from the west." "How cool would that be?" An idea I was only 24 years old when I had this idea the first time. Having spent a four-month term abroad in Northern Finland, I had acquired a taste in travelling. On top of that, I was newly in love. You know what that means: Everything was possible! But then, life got in the way. I was young. Maybe ...