72 Hours in Arizona: Everything I Wish Someone Had Told Me Before My First Solo Trip
72 Hours in Arizona: Everything I Wish Someone Had Told Me Before My First Solo Trip There are some trips you take because you need a vacation. Then there are the trips you take because you need to reconnect with yourself. For me, Arizona was the second one. I'll be honest, I almost didn't book this trip. Not because I didn't want to go, but because I had every excuse not to. What if I got lost? What if I didn't feel safe? What if the drive was too much? What if traveling alone wasn't everything people made it seem? I spent weeks opening browser tabs, comparing hotels, mapping routes, reading reviews, and changing my itinerary over and over again. I wasn't afraid of Arizona, I was afraid of making the wrong decisions once I got there. 72 hours later, I found myself standing inside Secret Canyon, watching the sunlight dance across the canyon walls and later watching the sunset over Sedona. Somewhere between those moments, I realized I had waited far too...
