Some journeys begin with a map. Others begin with a question. Alyssa's began with a feeling-small at first, like a loose thread tugging at the edge of her life. She didn't know what it meant, only that it pulled her toward the open road, toward strangers who would become mirrors, toward choices she had spent years avoiding. This is the story of how she left home to find herself, and how the world-messy, beautiful, and unplanned-met her halfway.