Solo Travel Part 2 - Living With Reality

“ You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality .” - Florida Scott-Maxwell I have a terminal case of wanderlust. But even as the scrolling and research heightens my anticipation, once I arrive, alone, in a foreign city, I’m often struck by the question: Why? Why did I haul myself in a cramped seat across the ocean and plunk myself down, alone, in a strange place. What am I doing here? Is this part of living fiercely? Is this my adventurous self who must know what’s out there, because staying in one’s comfort zone for too long becomes uncomfortable. When routines become mundane, then it’s time to wander. The Merriam Webster dictionary defines Wanderlust as a ‘strong longing for or impulse toward wandering’. And Robert Louis Stevenson writes in Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes , "I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I tr...