For all of my solo travel experience in the U.S. (typically business trips), I’d never taken on the adventure of international solo travel. Foreign travel seems like such a special experience that I’d always wanted to share it with a partner, family, or friends.
But after taking several trips last year with big, fun groups of friends, I felt ready to do something bold and exciting: take a trip to Europe alone. But it was hard for almost everyone I know to understand the attraction of a solo trip abroad.
“Why are you going by yourself?” I answered this question several dozen times as I told people I was taking my solo adventure to Amsterdam, a city that has been on my travel wish list for a long time.