She Set Off Traveling Alone at 13 and Visited Nearly Every Country. Meanwhile, I Need a Vacation After Going to Costco.
Every once in a while, I stumble across a headline that makes me question every life decision I've ever made. This week's masterpiece was about a woman who started traveling the world alone at the age of thirteen and has now visited nearly every country on Earth. Thirteen. At thirteen I wasn't crossing international borders—I was trying to remember my locker combination and convincing myself that eating pizza three times a week counted as a balanced diet because technically tomatoes are vegetables. Apparently some people spend their adolescence collecting passport stamps. I spent mine collecting evidence that I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. It's comforting to know that while I was mastering the sophisticated art of procrastinating homework, someone else was navigating airports in countries I couldn't even find on a map. Life really does hand out different starter packs. The more I thought about it, the funnier it became. Imagine having that level of confi...
