Solo travel was always something I wanted to do. I read The Top Five Regrets of The Dying when I was 19, and Bronnie Ware’s account of her work travelling around as a palliative care nurse has always greatly inspired me.
She detailed her experience of a nomadic lifestyle and the conversations she had with several people as they approached the end of their lives. One of the top regrets people had was not living the life they had wanted. “I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.’’
Her book heightened my want to volunteer abroad, to work with and learn from different people and to hear endless stories. And, without study or work to hide behind any more, and with a gnawing curiosity in me, I finally mustered up the courage to pack my bag last February.
