I actually happen to love car rides! Planes are amazing and I love seeing everything from a new perspective, but nothing really beats driving through the mountains or looking out at vast countrysides or even going through the occasional quaint little town. You can roll the windows down and blast your music and sing to the people in the car next to you, even though they are probably not listening to the same song. You can have long talks with your fellow passengers, and lemme tell you those late night drives can get deep. Some of my closest friendships are due to drives underneath the stars. Also, it's always a plus that cars can go through drive throughs. If a plane tried to due that I'm pretty sure chaos would ensue.

In my most recent road-trip I went to a place called Dismal's Canyon in Alabama. I walked down a flight of stairs to be greeted with walls towering over me, covered in the most vividly green moss I've ever seen. It had just rained and there was a slight fog weeving it's way through the rocks. Underneath that layer of fog were creeks, a few of which I fell into accidentally... and by a few I mean I fell in every creek I came across. #skills. I have never felt so involved with nature and there was no end to the exploration that this canyon held. After many hours of scaling rocks and discovering tiny waterfalls and running the battery out of both my camera and my gopro, it was dark and time to leave. But if the daylight had lasted any longer, I would have never left. 

I spent 9 days in a car with my very best friend. During these 9 days we drove a total of 2,080 miles, visited 7 states, drank 28 iced coffees, and took a grand total of 4,557 photos. But what can't be counted is the amount of times we laughed until we cried, the level of fear we had as we tried to trek a mile in pitch blackness to a tree-house in the middle of nowhere, and how much closer we became over the course of the trip. Even though we traveled somewhere new each day of the trip, and each location was absolutely amazing, having my best friend along with me is what made it the most incredible trip of my life.

There is no time like the present. If funds are deterring your adventure, save up. If no one will go with you, find the perfect place to solo travel. If you are just genuinely fearful of what traveling may hold, know that the positives will far outweigh the negatives. You have to put yourself out there and be vulnerable; you have to feel the fear and do it anyways. Because in the end, good or bad, it is always worth it. The world holds so muc love and happiness and everyone should get to explore it. So if you are ever presented with the opportunity to explore, dive in. I promise you will only regret the chances you did not take.