Being a solo traveler with unlimited time and without an itinerary, I didn’t always know where I would find myself the following day. When I did decide on a direction, it was a rare event if I did any research about where I was going. This meant that each time I arrived in a new city, the same conversation went through my head: Oh my God. What have I gotten myself into? What am I doing here? When I arrived in Hanoi, it was no different. All I wanted to do was camp out in my hotel room for two days and feel good about the decision, but inevitably the guilt of being on the other side of the
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