How to Ease Into Your First Solo Trip

Screaming as catharsis, trusting your gut, and a portable white noise machine for light sleepers.

While in graduate school, we were required to spend 3+ weeks abroad working with a social enterprise. The idea of this both terrified and thrilled me. Many of my peers visited their sites together, but due to a last minute change in plans with the nonprofit I was partnering with, I found myself heading solo—on my first-ever solo trip—to a remote area in…