The Bowling Tour – Sparky & Boo’s Badass Nordic Adventure

The Bowling Tour is a personal travel memoir that takes place over two weeks from November 20, 2024 to December 4, 2024. It follows the journey of a grandmother (her first time leaving North America at 73) and her granddaughter (a seasoned world traveller at 24) from Vancouver, to Stockholm, Rovaniemi in Finnish Lapland, Helsinki, Tallinn and back to Vancouver.

It is a time of firsts. Full of adventure, from walking tours around Helsinki to ABBA The Museum visit in Stockholm, chasing the Northern Lights north of the Arctic Circle, playing with huskies, feeding reindeer, exploring a rock church and climbing a tall hill to watch the sunset at 3 in the afternoon, hunting for the perfect cinnamon bun and Swedish meatball, accidentally attending a medieval church to listen to an invisible pipe organist, visiting Christmas markets and city streets adorned with twinkling lights and giant reindeer and moose, sleeping in hostels and Airbnbs, reading at bedtime with many many saunas to end the day.

And in every city, from Vancouver to Tallinn, we bowled. Deep conversations, silly talk, and so much laughter, wonder and joy.