when I hit the stiff bed in my kooba, this very fear of strangers that I had grown up knowing had compelled my twenty-something female self to go it alone and discover otherwise. Unbeknownst to me, it had become my mission to prove that the world isn’t the horrible place we often make it out to be. That just because there are some dirty fish, it doesn’t mean the entire ocean is dirty and we need to confine ourselves to the shores we know.
