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Solo traveling may sound scary, but it’s not!

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  Solo traveling is the name we give to a trip a person embarks alone and I've been solo traveling since 2017 around 9 countries already and I can say that this type of adventure is not related to loneliness at all! Let me explain why… One of the questions I get asked the most is how the heck I'm so brave to trust a stranger, to visit potentially dangerous towns and to use public transportation in cities I don't know. I have to be honest: I frequently get freak out and anxious when traveling, but I'm so focused to achieve my goals and that eases my mind...  I remember my first solo travel when I was 21 years old. My destination was Cuba, and my head was so overwhelmed that I could not stop thinking that the plane was going to crash or explode (by the way, that was my first-time riding in an aircraft too). I was sitting there waiting for the plane to take off and I can remember a Cuban girl that said ‘’hi’’ (and I guess she could saw my scared and green face 🤢). I waved...

The day I left home and became a nomad

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  This is something I should've started about two months ago when I left my home-country: El Salvador (exactly on May 23rd).  I remember that warm and cozy morning when I took a shower and then lifted my heaaaavy luggage. I never imagined how much my life was about to change... (The last mirror photo I took at home, taken at 4:18 am) (The last sunset I looked at and that I could enjoy from Zona Rosa) The journey began and I rode the beeeeest and the most comfortable bus I was going to ride from then on. It was full of European people and Gringos heading to Guatemala, and watching them inspired me more and more in becoming a nomad.  Once in Guatemala, I kept suffering the paranoia I inherited from living the worst and most dangerous years in El Salvador. So, I was not willing to go out and have lunch. Instead, I ordered pizza through PedidosYa (lol) and ate it at the station.  There, I read muuuultiple warnings about the risks of not being accepted to enter Mexico and...