Miles from Who I Was: What Nine Weeks Alone in Europe Taught Me About the World and Myself

Some trips change your plans. This one changed everything else.Chris Farabee was not the kind of person who did things like this. Cautious by nature, a planner by habit, he booked a nine-week solo train journey through nineteen European countries on something closer to instinct than logic — and then spent several weeks being very calm about it, by which he means the opposite of that.What followed was a journey through cathedrals and concentration camps, cliff-side villages and crowded pubs, laundromats and late-night bars where strangers became, briefly and genuinely, companions. A journey through heights he was afraid of, loneliness he hadn't anticipated, and small victories he hadn't known he needed.Miles from Who I Was is the story of what happens when you stop managing the future long enough to live in the present. Of the people who show up when you stay open. Of the version of yourself waiting on the other side of the thing you almost didn't do.The trip didn't change him. It reminded him who he already was. Read more