What Has Traveling Solo Meant for me?
“You must be brave!” These are some of the words I am told regularly followed by an awed look. My addiction to traveling began with my first adventure, where I quickly learned to love the world. It all started when I made travel plans with a group of classmates in graduate school for a month getaway in Italy and Egypt. Everyone flaked out of the plan as we got closer to the travel dates and I was forced to embark on the journey alone. So full disclosure, I became a solo traveler out of necessity, rather than by choice. My desire to travel the world started after reading the book, Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . If you haven’t read the book, it’s by the mountain climber, Greg Mortenson, who shares his incredible transition from life as a nurse to a mountain climber and humanitarian committed to reducing poverty and elevating the education of little girls in both Pakistan and Afghanistan. Mortenson, who attempted to climb K2, the world’s second-highest mount