My father was born in 1958, the youngest of 11 in a Wisconsin farm family. His mother was shot by a stray hunter's bullet when she was eight months pregnant with him.

From the end of Norway’s longest fjord to the battlefields of the Civil War, the story of my great-great-grandfather’s journey to America.

After downsizing by 85% and leaving a two-decade career, I step away from full-time U.S. life and set out into the unknown.