New feature!  Suggested listening for this post: Counting Stars, by Onerepublic I don’t really need a huge or massive reason to plan a trip.  Earlier this year, I flew around the world to celebrate my 30th birthday as well as a blogger I follow’s successful completion of a goal to visit every country in the world by his 35th birthday.  Later, I went to New Zealand mostly on a whim simply because I found First Class availability on Qantas from Sydney-Los Angeles and built a trip around it.  There was one common theme on these trips, though: I went alone.