Travel for STOICs: Empowering the Solo Traveler Who is Obsessive, Introverted, and Compulsive

For an obsessive-compulsive (O-C for short), the idea of traveling is usually nothing more than that, an idea. An O-C actually doing the traveling is a terrifying prospect; we are far too circumscribed and self-regulated to accomplish the planning, get on the planes, find our accommodations at our destinations, and actually enjoy the process. Fold in introversion, and you've got a crippling combination. Solo travel? Forget it.

Travel for STOICs is both a travel book and a survival manual, bu...