Comments on: Seven Reasons To Go Travelling Solo

By: Lucas

Lucas — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 06:15:31 +0000

This article is awesome and so true! I’ve come traveling with a friend from home who I warned that I might want to go off on my own and not to book with me if he wasn’t happy with that.. However we have been traveling for a month and I am now in the situation where I would like to split off but he doesn’t want to. I’m torn between making this unique experience the best possible experience for me and not wanting to ruin the experience for him! I’ve suggested splitting apart for a few weeks but keeping in contact so we have each other if we need help but he is reluctant and unhappy with the situation. I don’t know what to do.. Please any help would be greatly appreciated!

By: Ade

Ade — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 20:08:16 +0000

Graeme,
Just found this site and found your comments intresting i am 55 and myself thinking of backpacking on my own again, but I was also intrested how i would get on mixing with the 20 somethings.

By: ryan

ryan — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:51:28 +0000

Me and my mate and been planning to go to Thailand/oz for a while now, until he decided to go behind my back to book a solo trip to south America which doesn’t really interest me atm, anywho im still hoping to press ahead with my trip to Thailand alone around April time and am quite nervous about travelling alone. Anyone heading out around the same time?

By: Graeme

Graeme — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 00:14:34 +0000

Inspiring article Chris,amny thanks! I`ve been trying to find things like this all over the internet to give me the courage and confidence to travel again at the ripe old age of 53…and I think you may just have been that catalyst! I backpacked in the middle east with a good mate in the late 1970s-early 80s and said to myself that after that I would never be the same. I then settled down in a boring office job for the next 24 years and did the wife and 2 kids thing!
Now though my feet have become really itchy and I`m off doing the End to End(Lands End to John O`Groats)by bike in June with a couple of friends.I`ve not told my wife yet but I`m thinking it may be the prelude to something much bigger…the packing in of my hospital job and heading to India with a backpack,something which I regret not doing 30 years ago,when life was less complicated!
I`m wondering how an ‘old wrinkly’ like myself will be viewed by the majority of travellers as they are invaraibly 20 somethings,and that is filling me with a bit of intrepidation! However,I`ve got to grab the bull by the horns and go for it. If any of you 20 somethings see me around treat me gently. :)

By: Steve Sculley

Steve Sculley — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:37:56 +0000

I couldn’t agree more, I travelled from Istanbul to Paris last year solo but never felt lonely. I met a guy on the train to Sofia, Bulgaria. Travelled with him through Romania and Serbia. Then met a Belgian girl in on the bus in Montenegro. We were inseparable for a week! The rest of the trip I met some amazing people and some people I met in eastern europe I ended up staying with them in western europe. Solo travel can have moments of feeling lonely, but it does force you to get out of your comfort zone. Travelling in groups you can tend to go with consensus. Going alone you can do what you want. I’m travelling through Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos at the end of December. I’ll be travelling with two people in Vietnam and then solo for the rest of the trip. I’m more excited at that prospect because I’ll be my own boss! No asking where people want to go, I’ll just go!
The positives far out weight the negatives for me!

By: Nelson

Nelson — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 15:32:37 +0000

You are truly an inspiration to everyone who reads your advice.
I read this a while ago and it was the catalyst to make me go to Australia. I leave in 4 weeks and I cannot tell you how much your work helped my initial fear of the unknown.
I will be making a stop in Thailand and Vietnam in my 18 months and would love to visit some of the places mentioned in the comment section above.
One part that always sticks in my head when reading this is that you “re-evaluate your life” with travel and I think in a day and age where people feel depressed and lonely on a day in day out basis to throw yourself in at the deep end and take a risk like this is definitely going to make a difference to that.
I’ll be writing a blog of my virgin travels aswell so I would be honoured if you could check them out. I will post a link somewhere when I get it started.
P.S. I particularly liked your link to ‘first days in Bangkok’ it really reflected those feelings that you experience when you are out of your comfort zone.

Thanks again.

Ian

By: Rene rønning

Rene rønning — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 19:10:32 +0000

Im going in january to vietnam. Then cambodia laos thailand and perth..dreaming every day about this trip. Cant wait. Have a nice journey on the road people. Ps um traveling from oslo, are ther someone else doing the same exit.:)

By: Bart

Bart — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:14:19 +0000

This website is awesome :) There are a plenty of usefull information for me, because I’m planning my lonely journey :) thanks a lot

By: Helen

Helen — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:32:30 +0000

This seems such an inspirational website for all those lone-travellers out there…I love it! I went alone about 5 years ago now for a year and loved every single minute of it. I wanted to shake my life up and see where all the pieces landed when I got back & they couldn’t be in more of a different life than before I left. It has made my evening reading about all these lovely comments and remembering all the positive things travelling alone brings to your life…anyone in doubt – just go for it!! If the worst comes to the worst, there is always a plane home & you’ll at least be someone who tried rather than went through life wondering ‘what if’… Happy travelling :-) x