Traveling with the wrong people is infinitely worse than traveling alone

I love being alone. I don't hate people necessarily but I certainly love my own company, particularly when I'm traveling. I enjoy the freedom of movement. I like going wherever I want to go for as long as I want to go. I like taking the time to take the perfect picture, linger over a particularly compelling site, or breeze by a lackluster one.

I've done a fair share of solo traveling and traveling with others, and I can definitively say that traveling alone is way, way, way better than traveling with the…