Traveling Alone - Page 2

T-Bone · 31st January 2008, 2:26pm

i spent 11 months travelling on my own, north america, south america, new zealand, australia and south east asia and the number of people you meet is unbelievable. think about it, anyone embarking on a massive trip is unlikely to have a mate who has the money/desire/time to do it with them at that particular time and want to see the places you want to see. the majority of people who go on these type of trips do it on their todd. stay in youth hostels and you will come back with a notepad crammed full of email addresses. all it takes is a wee bit of banter and you'll be fine and as obvious as it sounds you always have ice breakers when your away ie 'where you from/been.going/etc'.

from meeting folk for a night on the piss never to see them again to finding out they are going the same direction as you and getting a train/bus together to hitting it off big time with someone and spending months working/travelling with them you will have no problems.

there was not one city/town/place i went where i met nobody even if its just talking to locals in pubs and stuff.

cinamon*spider* · 31st January 2008, 2:58pm

it's something i really want to do but i'm toos cared to do it. i'm such a wimp. a big part is that i don't wanna miss anything that happens back home. "like what?" I hear yiou ask. honestly shit things like nights out/birthdays etc. and everyone has tried to tell me how lame this is, I KNOW. i can't help being a loser! ihonestly don't think i could do it solo either. no way.

System_Star · 31st January 2008, 3:21pm

Good on you, I love the idea of it if I wasn't so poor. As people have said before, I think it would be better to travel on your own as you won't be wanting to see exactly the same things and go to the same places. Put yourself outside your own comfort zone so you'll have to talk to people and make friends

Largest of Gregs · 31st January 2008, 3:25pm

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Originally Posted by cinamon*spider*

it's something i really want to do but i'm toos cared to do it. i'm such a wimp. a big part is that i don't wanna miss anything that happens back home. "like what?" I hear yiou ask. honestly shit things like nights out/birthdays etc. and everyone has tried to tell me how lame this is, I KNOW. i can't help being a loser! ihonestly don't think i could do it solo either. no way.

Do it and go with a friend, you're too hot to go alone

cinamon*spider* · 31st January 2008, 3:47pm

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Originally Posted by Largest of Gregs

Do it and go with a friend, you're too hot to go alone

i would do that that'd be ideal but all my mates are at uni and actually doing stuff that requires them to stay here and not just bugger off!

sylvianorth · 31st January 2008, 4:49pm

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Originally Posted by cinamon*spider*

i would do that that'd be ideal but all my mates are at uni and actually doing stuff that requires them to stay here and not just bugger off!

Uni summers are like 5 months long, easily fixed, guaranteed one of your mates would want to do it with you if you considered it seriously look at anna for one!

Kirsten · 7th February 2008, 11:12pm

Look, if a wee white blonde bird (believe me all those factors become highly relevant when you go this far; more so than I imagined

) like me can travel all the way to Dubai, then on to various parts of India by hersel' - Going round Europe on yer todd is a fucking doddle!

I've done quite a bit of Europe, so the thought of going around any of it again is bringing on the yawns, but I cannot reccomend flying about on your own highly enough - the feeling of freedom, liberation (and so on) is fucking unreal, and I haven't felt this good since I was a young teenager!

And I can now also reccomend that the farther East you go, the more you push yourself out of your comfort zone, as was mentioned, and the more alive you feel - I've seen some of the most fucked up yet incredible things coinciding on my trip, that I would never have got to experience had I planned things out with anyone else.

You don't have to put up with anyone's fucking moaning, whining, moodswings or bullshit tantrums - you do what you want when you want, as often as you want, and meet so, so many incredible people from all over the place, and different backgrounds...and that was me living in fucking luxury!

I can easilly say I now have no regrets in life, everything bad is either too far away in the past to hold any significance what so ever, and/or ceases to exist altogether; and that doing the vast amount of travelling I did over the last while has EASILLY the best thing I've ever done so far.

I met so many amazing (and highly influential, no less) people, and came back home with 768575465465869709796765 business cards, personal invites all year-round, and other various contact details from some of the most inspiring people I have have ever come accross.

It has also instigated my next three seperate longhaul journeys coming up again just this year, and I'm almost pishing myself with excitement!

Don't listen to that inner voice telling you it's too scary to go on your own - go for it, and you'll have a blast that is likely to exceed all expectations!

It's changed my life in ways I never imagined it would, or even could - so go for it mate, and enjoy!