
Travelling Solo: What To Expect From A Trip Taken Alone
About this episode
As Juan prepares for his VeeCon trip to the US, we analyse the pros and cons of travelling on your own.
In Episode #298 of 'Musings' Juan and I discuss: the new t-shirts that we're giving out to supporters of the podcast, why I'm being a fence sitter on this topic, the decision making processes one needs to think about, my first meal of Chorrillana in Chile, places we would absolutely not go whilst travelling solo and the details of Juan's upcoming very first solo travel plus my learnings from 14 months alone across Latin America.
A big thanks to Brando (from the SLIEK podcast), Anthony (from S.O.N.G podcast) and Dave Jones (from Podcasting 2.0)!
As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!
Timeline:
(0:00) - We got cool shirts
(1:59) - In general: travel with someone
(5:51) - Motivations for travelling alone
(9:09) - You can have semi-solo travel as well
(12:47) - Eating on your own
(14:58) - Becoming comfortable doing EVERYTHING on your own
(17:57) - Don't solo travel if you can't make decisions
(19:12) - Boostragram Lounge
(23:49) - Planned vs unplanned trips
(27:43) - Spontaneity
(30:31) - Where would you not travel solo?
(36:42) - Final sum up
(39:51) - Covid travel in general is tedious
(41:57) - Travel on your own so you can listen to us more!
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