When I committed to Loyola, one of the things I was most excited about was the prospect of studying abroad. Not studying abroad doesn’t mean you can’t still travel.”It’s easy to feel like your only options for travel as a 20-something-year-old in college are to study abroad or travel with friends, but this becomes complicated when you have other commitments and your friends — and you — have very empty bank accounts. There’s actually a third option: solo travel. The terrifying, exhilarating, life-altering experience that is solo travel is one you shouldn’t allow to pass you by. One through Spain during winter break, another through Italy over spring break and the third through Ireland which I recently returned from.