Solo Travel – Why 50+ Travellers Should Consider Solo Travel

Solo travel sees no sign of abating, with more and more people of age despairing from their current life circumstances, and empty nesters deciding to explore the world by themselves.

There have never been better places for solo travelling than England which is rich in history and culture, Canada’s Vancouver where you can choose between city life and nature, or San Diego in the US which is good for sunbathing as well as surf.

1. You Get to Experience the Destination at Your Own Pace

Reading utterly at your own speed, arriving and leaving when it suits you, finding perfection in the mere expansion of your senses that travel affords – this is what solo travel offers. You can set the pace – a very freeing thing!

Travelling with friends is also an opportunity to get out of your comfort zone and see things you would have otherwise glossed over, and if this sense of confidence and autonomy is translated back home, it might aid you in challenging situations and can be applied to situations at work or with a relationship – all this while you’ve learned heaps. Learning opens the door to self-development … but it could also be a rocky road.

2. You Get to Meet New People

You reach out more to people when travelling solo, especially when you are in locations far from the trodden tourist trail, where the locals or other travellers approach you to make that interesting connection – and sometimes ends in new friendships!

Anyone out there been here: you find a friend to take a trip with you, you go back and forth on a location and schedule, they finally agree and then back out on you or read an article about threats in that place? Solo is the way to travel!

While plans can always change, meeting other solo travellers and locals before you even arrive, as you can do on the SoloTraveller and the Couchsurfing apps, helps to allay fears of travelling alone and establishes links with people you will meet on your travels sooner.

3. You Get to Spend More Time for Yourself

The biggest advantage of solo travel is that you will have more time by yourself. Due to the fact that solo-trip means that you have to find someone to share this adventure with you, by being on your own and travelling alone, you do not need to find any one else to join you in this excursion; instead, we can enjoy all those minutes in our whole trip and do whatever we wanted to do.

Your freedom to customize an itinerary makes the experience truly empowering and liberating.

Indeed, self-care can be conducive both to your wellbeing and to a deeper understanding of yourself; perhaps cafés aren’t your scene as you initially thought, but you instead have more fun when you visit museums, or prefer to just wander a destination by yourself for hours, learning to read people and situations better. Such findings are fundamental. For they tell you who you are and what does it for you.

4. You Get to Discover Who You Are

By going solo, you get to know the person you are sans company: sans best friend, sans travel buddy, sans familiar sights or sounds. You will push and expand your boundaries If you are up for the challenge, by yourself you can test your limits more accurately. You will see different sides of yourself pluses and minuses in yourself, and characteristics that you haven’t uncovered before or that are otherwise difficult to discover.

You’ll have to confront troubles that you’ll face alone and work out on your own; the confidence and self-reliance you’ll gain will be to your benefit both at home and in the workplace.

What pleasures you, alone, while travelling? Finding out what makes you happiest is what you are aiming at here. An emphasis on freedom to go where you want, when you want, is one thing. You might prefer to be alone too. Remember, being alone doesn’t mean you are lonely. Call or message your loved ones back home at regular intervals, and take something with you that gives you a cozy, familiar feeling, as if you hadn’t come straight from living on your own.