I haven’t traveled completely alone to a destination but there have been circumstances where I ended up alone. Back in 2015, I took my best friend to New York City to watch the New Year’s Eve Ball Drop. After hours of circulating the city blocks with about 400,000 other people to filter up Times Square in the blistering cold, we finally got as close as we were going to get. There is nowhere to get food or water. There was definitely  nowhere to use the restroom or warm up, you are snugged up next to hundreds of strangers for a long, long time to watch the 10 second ball drop. My friend stayed with me for a while until she started to have an anxiety attack because of all the people. She left me alone in the crowd to walk 45 blocks back to our hotel with no cell phone service/ wifi . I was not about to leave where I was, not only did I fund this whole trip for us but I came to watch this ball drop- with or without her. I called my parents to tell them what happened and to talk to someone for a while, then I started to talk to the people around me. I was clearly upset that she left me and had no way to contact me but I made the most of the situation. Finally after 9 hours of standing, the ball dropped and it was the New Year. My next problem was figuring out how to get back to the hotel because once it was over the whole place was in a scramble. I walked the streets of New York alone amidst the chaos of the festivities. I managed to find my way back to our hotel, with her safe inside the room- fast asleep.