Craig Conover on the 1 Thing First-time Visitors to Charleston Shouldn't Miss-and His Perfect Day in the Holy City

"As I was on this journey in this beautiful place, I didn't realize you could have private memories of adventure. I love spending time with people, and I've just always believed that memories didn't count unless they're with someone, and I was able to work on that,"

"I had to let go of everything that I thought would happen or expected out of it, and it took a couple of days, and then you just hit this level of solitude, which was the reason to go-you can't know something until you experience it. And it was really neat. It was kind of a bell curve where I was really getting used to being alone."

"I'm doing a different bucket-list item every month: I'm going to do something philanthropic-related and an adventure."

Craig Conover traveled to the Swiss alpine village Wengen for his first solo international trip and discovered new comfort with solitude. He learned that memories can be meaningful when experienced privately and worked through the belief that memories only count when shared. He let go of expectations after a couple of days and reached a level of solitude that felt liberating. During the trip he went snowboarding and snowshoeing, climbed a mountain, and took a yoga class he had long wanted to try. The experience increased his confidence to travel alone and inspired 2026 plans to pursue monthly bucket-list items combining philanthropy and adventure, including seeing the salmon run in Alaska and running a half marathon in Amsterdam.

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