The solo trip you’ve been putting off isn’t waiting for a bigger decision. It’s waiting for you to start making smaller ones, alone, without guilt. One overnight in Olomouc, a museum exit after thirty minutes, and what happens at a breakfast table when nobody else’s preferences are in the picture. This is the practice that builds a solo traveler.
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A Sufi teacher in India told me in my mid-twenties that I was watching my life from a train window. This is a repost of my conversation with Kellie Stirling of Talking About Midlife, and we went all the way back to before I was a solo traveler. Including the real difference between searching for yourself and meeting yourself.
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I was at the riverbank in Okazaki in March, there to see the cherry blossoms in the evening. It was raining, and the area was lit up for the first day of the festival. From a distance, it was genuinely beautiful. But when I got closer, I realized most of the buds were still closed…
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I was in Canada in September, standing on the balcony at my parents’ house when a school bus went by. September is when school starts. For fourteen years, it was also when I went back. And I felt something I hadn’t expected: relief. Pure, quiet relief. And then I felt surprised by the relief, because…
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This episode is a reflection on what shows up when women travel alone in midlife: the excitement, the loneliness, the questions that don’t get resolved, and the pressure we feel to explain our choices. It’s not about copying someone else’s way of traveling, but about noticing what gets stirred when we see another woman living differently so that we can each choose what feels right for us.
Read MoreThis episode is a reflection on what shows up when women travel alone in midlife: the excitement, the loneliness, the questions that don’t get resolved, and the pressure we feel to explain our choices. It’s not about copying someone else’s way of traveling, but about noticing what gets stirred when we see another woman living differently so that we can each choose what feels right for us.
Read MoreThis episode is a reflection on what shows up when women travel alone in midlife: the excitement, the loneliness, the questions that don’t get resolved, and the pressure we feel to explain our choices. It’s not about copying someone else’s way of traveling, but about noticing what gets stirred when we see another woman living differently so that we can each choose what feels right for us.
Read MoreThere was a moment in Oman last year. I was standing in a shop, waiting to buy chocolates, clearly there, clearly next. Someone else walked in and was served immediately. Nothing catastrophic happened. And yet I could feel the heat rise up in me, because I’ve been noticing this pattern for a while now, and…
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