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Traveling alone results in hyper-reflection.

It’s appropriate that there are so many words to describe being alone: solitude, isolation, loneliness, separated, abandoned, unattached, aloof, independent. They range from encompassing the cool and sweet feeling of being calm, at peace, sole, to the deep depressive detached singular, to the left behind, to righteous ascetic contemplation. Each one of these holds tinges and tints of the others.

I think visiting a foreign place alone allows you to truly create a relationship with that place. Being around others doesn’t leave time for that quiet observation that is necessary to fall in love with a city.