As I'm writing this, I'm sitting at one of my favourite coffee shops in London. It's on a busy street with people walking by and red buses zipping past me. Whilst one may see chaos, this is the calmest and the happiest I've been in quite some time.
Taking a chance as big as travelling alone, you're bound to discover something new about yourself. Perhaps you're bolder than you realized, more fearless, accepting or maybe it's as simple as finding a new food you adore. Sometimes it takes being in a completely new surrounding in which you don't know anyone to really kick self-discovery into gear.
I thought the furthest I would live away from home would be New York City, and that I would eventually settle down back in Minneapolis. Living abroad really hadn't even crossed my radar yet.
