Making the best out of a shit situation

I wrote yesterday that I felt like I couldn’t catch a break in 2022. With Sophia attending a funeral in Baltimore at the beginning of our planned honeymoon, 2022 had one more surprise for me.

Sophia is headed off to Baltimore tomorrow morning to attend her friend’s father’s funeral. I decided to keep my flight and fly out to Vietnam by myself. I had thought about pushing things back, but it was going to cost me quite a bit of money and I had some nonrefundable hotels booked already. Sophia will end up getting in Sunday night so that leaves me 3 days alone in Hanoi.

Obviously this is not an ideal scenario. The timing was really poor for our trip and I was really excited to travel with Sophia for her first trip back to Asia since she came here after she was born. While this isn’t the ideal start to my honeymoon, I also realize that things could have been a lot worse.

We’re still headed to Southeast Asia and we’re going to have an amazing time there. We’ll still get to go to all the major sites we have planned.

For myself, I’ve traveled solo quite a bit before and this is another opportunity to get out of my comfort zone and make the best out of my time solo in Vietnam. I’m not exactly sure what I’ll do, but it’ll probably be a lot of eating amazing food and exploring. There may be no better place to be traveling solo than Vietnam so I am excited.

I couldn’t help but think about how this may be the story of 2022. It’s been a tough year... one where most of us wouldn’t have wanted at the beginning of the year. But at the end of the day, we may look back on 2022 as a period of growth and resilience. Who knows? We may look back at 2022 and realize that it was a great year after all.