“I was never going to go if I waited for someone to go with me.” I’m sure this is some internet cliche I found on Twitter back in 2010, but nevertheless, it’s been my solo-travel motto for nearly a decade now, ever since I decided that travel was an experience I could truly and thoroughly [...]
You CAN afford to travel – you just don’t want to – and it’s time to come face to face with the reality that the same money that is going to eating out every night, to expensive handbags, to makeup or clothes can be budgeted to an adventure that has the potential to make you a more well rounded, cultured individual.
When a woman travels, particularly alone -- she is making a statement, one that says that she refuses to be associated with the stereotype of women as fragile and insecure. She is opening herself up to new experiences and opportunities -- she doesn’t travel to escape life, she travels so life doesn’t escape her.
