{"id":54,"date":"2026-04-28T12:58:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garnet.mediaidee.com\/wp2\/an-open-letter-to-my-younger-nervous-solo-travelling-self\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T12:58:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:58:48","slug":"an-open-letter-to-my-younger-nervous-solo-travelling-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garnet.mediaidee.com\/wp2\/an-open-letter-to-my-younger-nervous-solo-travelling-self\/","title":{"rendered":"An open letter to my younger, nervous, solo-travelling self"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear 23-year-old me,<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re about to book your first solo trip. You&#8217;ll read 47 blog posts, watch 12 YouTube videos, and still feel unprepared. Here&#8217;s what I wish someone had told you: the nervousness never fully goes away \u2014 but it stops being a reason not to go.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll eat alone at restaurants and it won&#8217;t be awkward. You&#8217;ll get lost and it won&#8217;t be dangerous. You&#8217;ll miss your flight and it won&#8217;t be the end of the world.<\/p>\n<p>The trick isn&#8217;t to be fearless. It&#8217;s to have someone on call who can fix things when they break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear 23-year-old me, You&#8217;re about to book your first solo trip. You&#8217;ll read 47 blog posts, watch 12 YouTube videos, and still feel unprepared. Here&#8217;s what I wish someone had told you: the nervousness never fully goes away \u2014 but it stops being a reason not to go. You&#8217;ll eat alone at restaurants and it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":55,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-good-ideas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garnet.mediaidee.com\/wp2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garnet.mediaidee.com\/wp2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garnet.mediaidee.com\/wp2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garnet.mediaidee.com\/wp2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/garnet.mediaidee.com\/wp2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garnet.mediaidee.com\/wp2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garnet.mediaidee.com\/wp2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garnet.mediaidee.com\/wp2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garnet.mediaidee.com\/wp2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}