Chapter 01 · June 19–August 2, 2020 · Mexico City, Mexico

Mexico City: The First Experiment

First solo-travel experiment.

My first solo-travel experiment: different enough to open the door, familiar enough that living somewhere else did not feel impossible.

Mexico City was my first real taste of stepping outside the life I already knew. It still felt culturally familiar enough to be comfortable, but it showed me that a temporary stay could be more than a vacation.

At the beginning, I did not know that this would become permanent. I only knew that the idea of another life no longer felt impossible.