Going Alone: Tips for a Safe and Pleasant Solo Journey

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8-10-2007 @ 3:26PM

Leyla said...

I nearly always travel solo - I like it so much I spend my spare time writing about it!

I know how it feels to be stranded, lonely and lost... I've been traveling solo most of my life and this still happens to me, although I have a few good tactics for beating the loneliness blues:
- sit next to women on the bus and strike up a conversation
- sit next to any friendly-looking people in a restaurant and do the same - you're pretty safe indoors
- seek out like-minded women - at a cooking or art course or silk-weaving shop or Internet cafe
- go where women go - the market, the wash house
- set yourself a routine - do the same thing at the same time each day - like getting up or writing your blog

There will always be times when you wonder why you ever left home - but the more you travel the better you learn to cope. Sounds like you're doing just fine!

Scribetrotter
http://www.women-on-the-road.com

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