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#1 I, too, went to Australia as an exchange student. I didn’t expect to come back with much more than a good tan and a backpack full of good memories. Instead, I came back with a boyfriend from rural Indiana.

#2 I noticed that, parallel with the hard-core outdoor culture, there were forces at work in American society that seemed to create a divide between humans and nature. I didn’t reflect on what all this might mean if we were to have children.

#3 In Scandinavia, it would be easy to make excuses for not going outside. The northern part of Scandinavia, which comprises Sweden, Denmark, and Norway, experiences a polar night every year for twenty-seven days, peaking with the winter solstice in late December.

#4 In the summer, the weather can be a toss-up, with temperatures sometimes hot and sunny in the south, but often cool and rainy in the north. As a result, Swedes are constantly on the lookout for good weather, and when they find it, they take advantage of it.

Summary of Linda Åkeson McGurk's There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather

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