I spent months traveling solo around Asia. A trip with a friend showed me how much I'd changed.

Macie Strum has been traveling alone for eight years. During a trip to Japan in early 2024, after two months of solo travel in Thailand and Vietnam, she met a friend and found that traveling with someone else was more stressful than being on her own. She realized she had become terrible at compromising after months of making every decision herself. Strum credits years of solo travel for helping her gain more trust in herself.

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