Badass women backpackers

How we're different (and how you can be that way too)

Photo from my first backpacking solo trip.

The first time I went backpacking, it was by myself.

That makes me sound a lot more brave and badass than I really was. The truth of the matter was that I was struggling with my personal life — just getting over a divorce, raising a teenager and her younger brother, dealing with a job I hated — and I just needed …