Cate Huston's "How I Learned to Love Traveling Solo"

I really enjoyed this "blog post". I was expecting it to go into the mechanics of traveling alone and doing it safely, but it ended up be about taking care of yourself emotionally mostly. I would have liked to see more of her perspective about how being female affects her traveling alone as well. It seems a little bit different than the other posts we have read recently, this one being much more casual and in more of a "how to" format, which was similar to the first two essays we read. It seems pretty straightforward and would be easier to replicate and use in my ed. narrative, and while Rose's and Malcolm X's narratives were deep and wonderful to read, they definitely used a bit more of my brain to process.

I did relate to a lot of the advice in the essay however. I am an ambivert as well and need to balance my alone time vs social time. Too much or too little of either leaves me needy and moody. I appreciated the reassurance to not try to be "beautiful" the whole time and to just adventure and have fun, this is for ME after all, and effort on your looks isn't really necessary if you are just enjoying yourself.