“To wander is to be alive.”
― Roman Payne, Europa: Limited Time Edition
The idea of traveling solo, goes way deep into an individual’s personality. For me, it’s in the search of freedom and peace!
Solo trips have taught me a lot of things, the major one being self realization. When I’d first moved out of my house for college, I treated myself as a free bird 🙂 Unaware of the real world or it’s actors, that I was kept away from so long. Thus, I learned the concepts of “betrayal”, “hypocrite” and “true love”.
This adventure started in my life from 2008, when I’d traveled alone for the first time, to Mandarmani. I still recall the fear as well as happiness I’d experienced during that journey and stay. Having no job at that time, my only option was saving from the monthly cash I was sent from home. With that, I could afford just-enough food for 2 days.
My next few travels began from 2013, starting with me setting foot in the States. Even though I’d not call this (these) as leisure travel(s), I did explore a lot of places and things on my own. Post this, I explored Bangalore (where I was staying since 2010), on foot and bus. Next, I explored Puducherry, Hyderabad and Varkala.
All of these travels have shown me different things every time –
- How well one can stay with minimum spend on accommodation and food.
- How to meet new people and actually talk to them with a free mind and heart.
- Serenity is best achieved with no thoughts in mind.
- Ways of fighting your worst of fears and realizing they never were or can be true.
- When various difficulties arrive out of nowhere, how help approaches, also out of nowhere.
- You automatically obliterate every bug from your regular life.
- Learn how to read various people; their expressions, emotions and moods, with focused observation.
- Believe it or not, it helped & still helps me know the different kinds 🙂
- It’s easier to complete your to-do list with no set planning needed.
- It’s not so difficult for a female to travel unaccompanied or independent.
- How much some things or people back home mean and matter for you.
- When you see some old couple having fun on their vacation, if you feel the view, you realize a lot about life.
- The biggest thing is…. you are not the only solo one there.
“…if we’re all alone, then we’re all together in that too.”
– P.S. I Love You (2007)
So far I’ve taken very few solitary vacations, but I’m hungry to see more and I’m sure I will!
Having been to the mountains, snow, forest, desert and plain beautiful architectures, I evidently discovered that I love the sea THE MOST! It helps me soothe my soul!!!
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I haven’t travelled by myself outside the country yet. It’s something I’ve yet to do. Even though, I have fears (as a woman) to travel alone… I know I’ll be able to learn a lot from it. Btw, love this quote you shared – “…if we’re all alone, then we’re all together in that too.” Cheers! ~
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At times, it’s also needed to take a leap of faith 🙂 You will be just fine!
Your experience makes me want to travel solo too. Maybe find myself by travelling and such. This is inspiring, thank you so much for sharing
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“To wander is to be alive.” What a wonderful quote. Travelling is a great teacher. Doing it solo does allow us to explore not only the world but also ourselves. 😊
Oh, yes… so much 🙂
To wander is to be alive. I love that, you learn a lot by going to places you’ve never been to. And you realize a lot by doing so alone. 😀
Indeed you do 🙂
I’m still thinking if will push thru with my solo trip on October but your list convinced me. I really wanna try at least once.
Do give it a shot… I am sure you will love it…
Looking forward to travel solo! I will be putting other things you provided into my notes. Thanks!
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I’ve always wanted to do this but I am so scared. A lot of factors are sinking in whenever I try. Hmmm would you suggest a place where I can start with this?
Since you’re residing in Ph…Why don’t you try look for a place that’s really off beat and serene… just explore your options of the sea, mountains or just plain land 🙂 you’ll definitely connect with one beauty of nature and that’d be all you need to enjoy the solo travel:)
Awesome! I haven’t traveled solo yet but it’s on my 2016 bucketlist! Hope I’ll have as much fun as you do and I hope that I’ll also learn a lot!
Absolutely… there’s a lot to run!
It’s one thing I’ve been dreaming of, to travel alone and enjoy exploring places alone. That would be definitely fun.
When I experienced my first heartbreak, I traveled solo and it wasn’t too good tbh. You’ll just cry during the whole travel and wishing you had someone with you. I think it’s perfect to travel solo when you’re in better shape. After I give birth soon, I will push solo travelling. Hopefully!
I hope you get to do this soon, Jayresa 🙂 And congratulations!
I was able to travel solo last February. I went to Baguio for just a day tour to witness the Panagbenga and I still can’t believe that I was able to overcome my fear… it surprisingly went successful contrary to how my paranoid mind is expecting to happened hehe.. I wish I can do more solo travels soon
That’s amazing…
I’ve traveled solo too much in my college days that now I don’t want to go anywhere without my family haha. Maybe if I were still single and childless I would consider going on a sabbatical alone, it is a pretty great experience, but right now I love traveling with my crowd.
I’m sure you do… These are all just different phases of our lives…
Looking forward to experiencing everything you realized or learned during your solo trip on my very own solo-ing next year! Glad to know that we girls can still travel even without companion safely. It’s a great relief for a worrier like me. Cheers to more solo travel, sis! 🙂
I’m glad you’re planning on it. I really hope you have loads of fun:)
Enjoy to the core! Do share your experience post that:)