"Going travelling on your own lets you literally leave everything behind - work, family and friends. This is what makes it scary and also what makes it so intensely liberating... On your own, you have absolute freedom to do what you want and you don’t have to conform to the expectations that work, friends and family inevitably put upon you." -
http://travelhappy.info/travel-tips/seven-reasons-to-go-travelling-solo/ “Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.” - Pico Iyer, from “A New Kind of Travel for a New Kind of World”, a speech given at the Key West Literary Seminar, January 5, 2006
trying to balance things out here.