Freedom & Inspiration: What Elaine Lee Loves Most About Solo Travel

A Lifelong Love of Solo Travel

My very first solo journey was to the Bahamas at age 23, and I realized early on that sisterhood is actually highly effective. I discovered that when ladies see that you’re touring alone, they typically provide to assist. I met a girl on the seashore in Nassau who invited me to affix her on her return to Exuma the following day and keep in her house along with her husband. The subsequent day, I joined her on the mail boat and off we went to the island. It was an impressive cultural immersion. She and I made bread collectively every day for dinner, she organized for me to present a chat on the native elementary college, a number of native ladies taught me the artwork of basket weaving and her husband typically took me to play dominoes together with his mates. Yes, exterior of your consolation zone is the place the magic occurs!    

If a first-timer is anxious about touring alone, it is perhaps a good suggestion to begin by touring to a secure, English-speaking nation, corresponding to Barbados or Canada. After they’ve had a profitable expertise, then they will attempt one thing extra difficult.    

At age 73, after two solo adventures all over the world and visiting many of the 70 nations I’ve traveled to alone, one factor I do know for certain is that it’s vital to be comfy with solitude, be taught to get pleasure from your personal firm and most significantly, belief your instincts. When the hairs on my arms say, “Laney, don’t go there,” I pay attention, belief and obey.