The first time I traveled a significant time on my own was 6 years ago – it was one of those life changing moments when I realized I could not be held back by my family’s choice of safe holidays to vacation spots that were beautiful, but after 12 years was predictably irking me. Since then I have made a few trips on my own, the most challenging was an adventure trip to Costa Rica when I stayed awake all night in my one-person tent agonizing if I’d be carried away by the ragin