business trips for many years were a place where my loneliness, isolation, despair and self-loathing intermingled with my relative anonymity, my separation from life and family, my free time and ample access to alcohol, drugs and addictive influence to create a perfect storm that fueled itself in a dark spiral.
When I finally embraced sobriety and found myself on 10-day business trips in Vegas going to bed early, reading, working out in the early mornings, drinking water and eating healthfully - I was able to look upon my old perspective with new eyes and see it for the awful excuse it all was.
I'm glad you're holding true to your sobriety. Business doesn't need to equal drinking.