Travelling Alone

I thought the text was a very enlightening view of the pleasure of having time to your self while also recognizing that humans are social creatures. In one part of the article, the author explains that before she goes out on an adventure by herself she stocks up on social activities in the nights leading up to her departure. After her socializing from the previous week, she feels like some alone time as she starts to travel. I think my favorite part was the section “Do Weird Stuff”. To me it feels like the author knows that people have their own quirks that will feel normal to them but that may seem weird to others and it’s important to do those weird things that you like, especially since you’re traveling alone.

It seems more like a blog read than a formal paper, but the text organized and well structured. The article gives advice to readers based on her experience traveling alone and includes tips on how to make a lone trip exciting. In this way it seems more like a blog. It also relates to the paper as education narrative in the way it is structured and the order in which the advice she gives is ordered. Having several articles like this one and the previous articles we've read, can allow us to take bits and pieces of different writing styles and use them to tailor our papers into our own unique writings with many different influences.