A Solo Trip to the Arctic Helped Me Find Comfort Among Strangers
"Most of the adventures were booked through Aurora Village, the first hotel on my itinerary. Pretty much every outdoor winter sport was available, including the aforementioned snow-shoeing excursion with Juha Tuunanen, the hotel’s CEO who offered us a fire-building lesson—a necessary survival skill for any Lapland resident. We sat around the fire and drank cups of warm blueberry juice, watching the sky turn from gray to black at 3:30 p.m."
