Because Scotland was a lot of things. Scotland was a week of new love, saying goodbye to an old frie

Because Scotland was a lot of things. Scotland was a week of new love, saying goodbye to an old friend and discovering a beautiful, wild and wind-whipped country. Scotland was finally figuring out that your travel life and personal life will collide sometimes, and that the result can be complicated.
I quickly booked a place to stay and headed to Edinburgh to meet my childhood best friend and her boyfriend. I was about to study abroad on Mallorca and figured, why not squeeze in a trip to Scotland beforehand?
Back when I was 20, I wasn t happy. My long-distance relationship was crumbling and my family situation was intolerably hard. But much of my discontent came from inside; luxury car rentals houston I was stuck in a rut. And despite my valiant efforts, I felt I would always be overweight and unhappy.
When I remember Scotland my heart stings as it was the last time I ever saw, or will probably ever see, my childhood best friend. While we had fun in Scotland, things luxury car rentals houston quickly fell apart once we got home. But on some level, I m glad our friendship ended the way it did. As high-schoolers we had always dreamed of our trip to Europe, so it was an apt and poetic ending for our friendship to finish abroad.
Before Scotland, I equated traveling with freedom and discovery and bliss, and my home life with all that is banal and sometimes painful: bills and grades and and friendships that just aren t working anymore.
In Scotland I learned it s impossible to saunter around unmoored from reality. Because no matter how far you run, you can t escape the things you inevitably carry with you: your insecurities and your history and your shame, your fears and your friendships and your heartbreaks.
So thank you Scotland, for helping me grow up. Thank you for giving me a beautiful luxury car rentals houston week with my friend and someone wonderful to spend the summer with. I m sure (or I certainly hope) that I ll be seeing you again.
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Thanks for also pointing out an important fact about travel you can t actually escape your old life. I just moved abroad and I realized that very quickly. There is no new Genny just because I live in Holland now. I am still the same old me with the same old problems, only in a more fabulous location, and I m starting to feel okay with that. I think travel has really just made me more confident and comfortable with the imperfect person that I am, rather than changing me completely.
Thanks, Genny! I was really nervous about sharing this because I wondered if it would seem off-topic or too personal. And I totally agree- no matter where you go, you always take yourself, if that makes sense.
Tourist attractions in Scotland include charming luxury car rentals houston castles and country houses, fascinating museums and friendly wildlife parks. But there are also other things to see in Scotland which include visiting the stunning variety of hills and lochs, and maybe even the Loch Ness Monster, Nessie!