Comments on: Why I Travel Alone https://www.nomadicmatt.com/travel-blogs/why-solo-travel/ Travel Better, Cheaper, Longer Tue, 17 Sep 2024 14:23:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Bella Marin https://www.nomadicmatt.com/travel-blogs/why-solo-travel/#comment-1268282 Tue, 25 Dec 2018 19:33:56 +0000 https://www.nomadicmatt.com/?p=28411#comment-1268282 In reply to Jeffrey Bennett.

I agree! Cant wait around for someone.

]]> By: Nina Javez https://www.nomadicmatt.com/travel-blogs/why-solo-travel/#comment-1268281 Tue, 25 Dec 2018 19:33:27 +0000 https://www.nomadicmatt.com/?p=28411#comment-1268281 Traveling alone has been one of the most liberating and enjoyable experiences of my life. This blog is nothing but true!

]]> By: Jeffrey Bennett https://www.nomadicmatt.com/travel-blogs/why-solo-travel/#comment-1188301 Tue, 24 Jul 2018 14:18:16 +0000 https://www.nomadicmatt.com/?p=28411#comment-1188301 Oh absolutely!! I searched for many months to find someone willing to go to Asia with me for my first time ever, yet not a single one of my friends at the time could make it. I decided to go alone anyway and it was one of the best experiences I’ve ever had.

]]> By: Decky Harris https://www.nomadicmatt.com/travel-blogs/why-solo-travel/#comment-1053814 Tue, 17 Oct 2017 10:49:35 +0000 https://www.nomadicmatt.com/?p=28411#comment-1053814 It is always better to travel alone. But before planning for travel, it is necessary to plan our things at our time of travel. Without arranging a proper travel, the trip will be useless. Here’s an interesting article on travelling alone.

]]> By: Loveen https://www.nomadicmatt.com/travel-blogs/why-solo-travel/#comment-998528 Mon, 05 Jun 2017 02:35:52 +0000 https://www.nomadicmatt.com/?p=28411#comment-998528 I just have to comment because this is exactly what pushed me to travel solo years back! It wasn’t because of self-discovery and all that – it was because it’s just so hard when you travel with friends and you have to synchronize your dates, etc. It’s better when you nothing else to consider except your own preferences.

]]> By: ME https://www.nomadicmatt.com/travel-blogs/why-solo-travel/#comment-978241 Fri, 28 Oct 2016 03:23:05 +0000 https://www.nomadicmatt.com/?p=28411#comment-978241 Wow wow, just WOW. I needed to read this soo badly. Lovely blog. I am teaching English in Japan and I plan to have a once-in-a-lifetime trip to the ski resorts of Hokkaido in the North of Japan. To do that, I will have to send less money home and postpone some renovations at home for at least four months so mom doesn’t understand. However, if I don’t do this, I will regret for the rest of my life. I really want to do this when I can. After reading this blog, I will go ahead and book the flights…

]]> By: Dana https://www.nomadicmatt.com/travel-blogs/why-solo-travel/#comment-974873 Tue, 12 Jul 2016 21:13:40 +0000 https://www.nomadicmatt.com/?p=28411#comment-974873 ” if I wait for others, I’ll never go anywhere” SO TRUE! I learned that decades ago in my mid 20s. Began going places on my own when no one else would accompany me: movies, restaurants, etc. Took my first solo road trip at 24 from Utah to CA. Gradually as the decades past more and more of my road trips were done solo, and fewer with others. Until I finally admitted to myself the dirty little secret I didn’t want to face: I was spoiled rotten at this point. I LIKED being alone on these things!! Liked it? I relished it! Did whatever I felt like doing. Stopped where I wanted, ate where I wanted, listened to the same song 80 times down the freeway. Talk to docents and villagers, stare at the sea or meditate over a lichen covered rock. With no one behind me clearing their throat and point at their watch. I am one of those people who recharges with “alone time.” Yes, I have still done road trips with good friends and had a blast in the process, I’m not entirely anti-social. But my fav trips are usually ones where its just me off on an adventure to meet the world and see what I can see. Sadly, when you take other people its not your trip any more -and depending on who you invite…it can lose the “flavor” you were originally seeking. (I had, at one time, several lovely but high maintenance “control freak” friends, god love em! Asking them to do anything required surrendering the reins and letting them take over whether for a weekend, an evening or longer. I soon figured out I didn’t even want them on the longer road trips.) I’m nearing 60 and I have a lifetime of great experiences that would never have happened if the trips hadn’t been solo. So much I would have missed out on! And it all started because I realized early on if I waited for others I’d never go anywhere.

]]> By: Dougie https://www.nomadicmatt.com/travel-blogs/why-solo-travel/#comment-920428 Tue, 04 Aug 2015 01:14:03 +0000 https://www.nomadicmatt.com/?p=28411#comment-920428 You are spot on in your blog. I’ve dreamt about going away alone experiencing what the world has to offer. No limits on what I can do or where I can go as there would be nobody to stop me and pull me back once i’m gone. Like to one morning get up and think ‘fuck it I am going’ then arrange to go away and stick to it.

]]> By: NomadicMatt https://www.nomadicmatt.com/travel-blogs/why-solo-travel/#comment-894801 Tue, 09 Jun 2015 12:46:22 +0000 https://www.nomadicmatt.com/?p=28411#comment-894801 In reply to Sam.

Where are you? Are you staying in hostels? If this isn’t something you’re used to, the first week is going to be a major challenge but give it some time and you’ll get used to it. It’s rough in the beginning and it takes time to adjust to a new way of life.

]]> By: Sam https://www.nomadicmatt.com/travel-blogs/why-solo-travel/#comment-893201 Fri, 05 Jun 2015 16:34:34 +0000 https://www.nomadicmatt.com/?p=28411#comment-893201 I’m currently on my first solo trip and man…it’s rough! It was supposed to be a short trip -about a month- but less than a week in, I’m not sure if I will make it. I’ve gotten lost so many times, can’t speak the language, and am just generally having a hard time adjusting. I’m actually quite surprised how hard this has been for me because I typically embrace alone time. It’s really stretching my comfort zone. Eating alone!!!? WHATTT??? Never thought I’d do that!

I don’t really care for the main touristy attractions, so I’m spending my trip off the beaten path. Maybe it would have been easier if I wasn’t. Maybe it would be easier if I was staying in hostels (but I feel a bit old for that). I read so many travel blogs and hear so many stories about how easy it is to make friends on the road, etc. I haven’t even found someone to have a conversation with!!! Meeting new friends seems like an impossibility at this point.

I feel like I’m failing at this trip.

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