When I first arrived in Tokyo, I was sick, lost, and alone. I was also fifteen years old.
This was my first of many extended trips for work (I??m a model) and the decision to travel solo had been made at the last minute.
That evening, when I got off the bus in the wrong place after a severely delayed 13-hour flight, I had second thoughts, but ultimately traveling alone as a teenager turned out to be a seminal part of my youth.