{"id":14474,"date":"2025-10-20T17:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/14474\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T17:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:59:11","slug":"a-california-family-in-the-swedish-wilderness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/14474\/","title":{"rendered":"A California Family in the Swedish Wilderness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"0\" class=\"body-dropcap css-b3fj69 emevuu60\">Would you fly all the way to Sweden, build a 7,000-pound raft out of logs, and spend three days floating down a foreign river\u2014all just to grab a nostalgic bit of the California dream? That\u2019s exactly what writer Chris Colin did, along with his wife and two thoroughly San Franciscan kids. The family\u2019s experience, captured in Colin\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.altaonline.com\/dispatches\/a65875699\/sweden-raft-adventure-california-family-chris-colin\/\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.altaonline.com\/dispatches\/a65875699\/sweden-raft-adventure-california-family-chris-colin\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Why Not Live Like This?\" class=\"body-link css-1am3w39 emevuu60\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Why Not Live Like This?<\/a>\u201d in Alta Journal\u2019s Issue 33, is both inspiring and surprising, if not a little bit terrifying. Colin joins Alta Live to regale us with his family adventure, detail the beauty of life aboard the SS Rosie, and explain what  floating down a Swedish river has to do with life in California. Don\u2019t miss this one!<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"1\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\"><a href=\"https:\/\/altaonline.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_8vhxhGfNT6qpIhkLFHpr-g\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/altaonline.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_8vhxhGfNT6qpIhkLFHpr-g\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"REGISTER\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" class=\"body-btn-link css-1vlgip6 emevuu60\" target=\"_blank\">REGISTER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>About the guest: <\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"3\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Chris Colin\u2019s work has appeared in The Best American Science and Nature Writing. He produces the podcast Longer Tables with Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s.\u2022<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Would you fly all the way to Sweden, build a 7,000-pound raft out of logs, and spend three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12791,12788,12784,7,9,8,12789,12787,12790,12785,12786],"class_list":["post-14474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-adventure-travel","tag-alta-journal","tag-alta-live","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-chris-colin","tag-family-european-vacation","tag-san-francisco-travel","tag-sweden","tag-swedish-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}