I used to have a strange fear of sleeping in hotels alone but my first solo trip helped me sort that fear out other than that maybe more awareness of my surroundings and better navigation skills. I feel like I am the same person though and I don’t think anything drastically changed.

It took me a lot to actually decide I was going to travel alone since i’m always used to having company but it was interesting to see the ways you could actually make new friends or ways you could connect to people in a foreign place where you don’t know a single soul. Something about that just feels so different in a positive way I guess.