Posted: 09/10/2014 | September 10th, 2014

Last month, I revealed I’d be bringing monthly columnists to this website. On the second Wednesday of the month, Kristin Addis from Be My travel Muse will be right here to provide you fantastic tips as well as advice on solo female travel. Her column starts this month. Let’s get to understand her!

I sat on the beach in Cambodia, amazed that a white sand beach so pristine still existed in the world. There were no towering resorts or people with elegant drinks with umbrellas walking by. It was virtually empty. This was my second week traveling alone. I bought my one-way ticket to Southeast Asia, and, sitting on this beach, I understood I made the right decision.

I never did a great deal of traveling when I was younger as well as definitely had never backpacked alone — or, really, at all. four years earlier, I’d resided in Taiwan as a language trainee for eight months. After coming house as well as getting a full-time task like I believed I was supposed to, I couldn’t shake my wish to return to Asia. In those days of longing, I never pictured I’d ultimately take off on an open-ended trip that I’m still on two years later.

So why did I stop my task to travel the world?

Even though I was professionally successful, I wasn’t happy. My workstation felt restrictive. The task paid well, however I discovered that the money wasn’t sufficient to validate costs my twenties supporting somebody else’s dream. I felt like something was missing. I needed adventure, as well as I couldn’t shake my wish to get back to Asia. however I wasn’t sure exactly how to make it happen.

I spent years yearning for freedom, heavy with research study into far-off locations that seemed so eliminated from any type of truth I might picture for myself. I scoured the Web for some type of inspiration. Was it possible to travel long-lasting without a trust fund? might women truly travel alone safely? I understood nobody else who might just stop his or her life as well as join me, so the only method was to go it alone.

The more I checked out online, the more I realized it was possible as well as the more the dream ended up being a long-term resident in my mind. The wish ended up being so huge, it was frequently the only thing I might believe about. Quitting my task as well as selling all of my stuff was precisely what I needed to do to get back to Asia, so I hatched a plan as well as complied with it.

The thoughts in my head echoed my friends’ concerns. Am I crazy to be venturing off alone? M-am întrebat. will I shoot myself in the foot economically as well as professionally? will it be safe? will I be lonely all the time? will I have regrets?

But I understood that the biggest regret of all would have been to stay in a circumstance I wasn’t happy with: a world of elegant cars, high rent, as well as designer clothes that somehow never handled to bring me the joy I’d been promised.

I didn’t believe in the “American dream” anymore. I didn’t want a mortgage, a white picket fence, 2.5 children, as well as a feline named Fluffy. In August 2012, I listed whatever I had on Craigslist as well as offered it off in the span of one week, then promptly ended my lease as well as moved out of my apartment. In September, shaking in my shoes, I boarded the airplane to Bangkok, without so much as a space booked when I landed.

Sitting on that beach in Cambodia, it felt like I had reached the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. What had I been so afraid of? everything [turned out to be] simple, safe, as well as easy.

I’ve traveled solo with every country in Southeast Asia while falling in like with the culture as well as food. I’ve hung out of doors of trains chugging past cascading rice paddies in Sri Lanka, dived with whale sharks in the Maldives, trekked over 100 miles in Nepal while bring all of my own gear, as well as hitchhiked alone with China.

These experiences assisted me figure out exactly how to discover the less-visited places, exactly how to get invited into people’s houses in order to experience the true regional culture, as well as exactly how to delve deeper into each location without relying on a guidebook. As a solo traveler, these chances are frequently plentiful for me. people want to take solo travelers in, there’s more space for one, as well as it can all be experienced individually, providing an fantastic discovering experience about the world.

The beauty of traveling solo, particularly as a female, has likewise taught me so much about myself. It’s made me more independent, stronger, as well as more resilient. I’ve encountered so many fantastic women available doing the extremely exact same thing, a few of whom are as young as 18 or 19 years old.

I’ve got countless emails from women in similar situations, those who want to leave behind a traditional life to see the world. I always tell them that if it’s in their heart, they have to do it.

ÎnColoana mea lunară, vă puteți aștepta să vedeți mai multe postări despre exact cum să faceți asta – cum să vă confruntați, precum și să treceți peste frică, exact cum să notificați, precum și să stingeți ezitările amicilor, precum și familia, exact cum să faceți exact cum să Încheiați -vă contractul de închiriere, precum și oferiți -vă lucrurile, ce să împachetați, exact cum să rămâneți în siguranță, exact cum să descoperiți experiențe culturale mai profunde, precum și multe altele. Vă voi arăta că este mai ușor decât credeți să călătoriți în întreaga lume ca femeie.

Călătoria de lungă durată are nevoie absolut de un salt de credință, cu toate acestea, cu pregătirea potrivită, nu trebuie să fie unul înspăimântător.

Kristin Addis este un profesionist de călătorie solo care influențează femeile să călătorească lumea într -un mod autentic, precum și aventurus. Un fost bancher de investiții care și -a oferit toate bunurile, precum și a părăsit California în 2012, Kristin a călătorit solo în lume de peste patru ani, acoperind fiecare continent (cu excepția Antarcticii, cu toate acestea se află pe lista ei). Aproape nimic nu va încerca, precum și aproape nicăieri nu va explora. Puteți descoperi mai multe dintre mediile ei de la Be My Travel Muse sau pe Instagram, precum și pe Facebook.

Rezervați -vă călătoria: sfaturi logistice, precum și trucuri
Rezervați -vă zborul
Găsiți un zbor ieftin folosind Skyscanner. Este motorul meu de navigare preferat, deoarece caută site -uri web, precum și companii aeriene de pe glob, astfel încât să înțelegeți întotdeauna că nicio piatră nu este lăsată neîntreruptă.

Rezervați -vă cazarea
Vă puteți rezerva pensiunea cu Hostelworld. Dacă doriți să rămâneți în altă parte decât o pensiune, utilizați Booking.com, deoarece acestea returnează în mod constant cele mai ieftine tarife pentru casele de oaspeți, precum și hotelurile.

Nu reușiți să vă amintiți asigurarea de călătorie
Acoperirea asigurărilor de călătorie vă va proteja împotriva bolilor, vătămărilor, furtului, precum și anulările. Este o securitate cuprinzătoare în situație, orice nu merge bine. Nu plec niciodată într -o călătorie fără ea, deoarece a trebuit să o folosesc de multe ori în trecut. Afacerea mea preferată care oferă cel mai bun serviciu, precum și valoarea sunt:

Safetywing (cel mai bun pentru toată lumea)

Asigurați -mi călătoria (pentru cei de peste 70 de ani)

MedJet (pentru o acoperire suplimentară de evacuare)

Sunteți gata să vă rezervați călătoria?
Consultați pagina mea de resurse pentru cea mai bună afacere de utilizat atunci când călătoriți. Enistând toate cele pe care le folosesc când călătoresc. Sunt cei mai buni din clasă, precum și nu puteți greși folosind -le în călătoria dvs.