I promise, it's not a rant, but...
...one thing I ask myself constantly when reading posts on this sub:
Do I take the "solo" in SoloTravel too literal?
- When posting about your travels, it feels like 99 % of the time you tell us about how you met people and how they were awesome.
- When posting about going home some of you told us how hard it was to say goodbye to the friends you made along the way
- a few days ago a dude asked what we valued in the hostels we've been to, so he can give future travellers the best experience when opening his own hostel, some comments were about community dinner and meetup areas
- When posting questions, some of you ask about how to approach strangers and make friends with them.
Please, please don't get me wrong - I love all the stuff on this sub. I love that we have enough of a community feeling so that people feel comfortable asking this stuff. If it's important to you to meet new people - that is what counts, there's no denying in that.
...But.
When I travelled - I did quite a few trips over the last years - I travelled, well, to be alone. To be on my own. To experience things in my own pace. To be able to switch plans for the day literally the last minute.
When I travel, I do so to get away from people, to recharge from the stress that is encountering people every day. Again, don't get me wrong. I don't hate people. In my social and work life my friends describe me as quite the extrovert.
As I said: It's not a rant. I love all you wonderful people. In my personal experience there is no other sub free of any form of hate to the same extent.
But the sub got me wondering...
Are there two (at least) different meanings to the word "Solo" Travel?
Submitted January 18, 2019 at 11:24AM by LeSexyMuffin http://bit.ly/2Dia9CZ
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