Adventure travel alone and the myth of loneliness
The secret of adventure travel is that you’re never really alone.
I know there are some places where you can be alone for a long time – solo sailing adventure, trekking through the Arctic and the like, but for most of us, even when you travel alone, we are always relatively close other people. I remember my concerns before riding my bike through the Nevada Highway 50 “The lonely road in America,” the guide whispered, “be prepared for long stretches without contact from other people.” My first day in Carson City, I met three drivers, two cyclists, a professional (which gave me more ice-free) and a waiter friend who has left the field in the courtyard behind the hall in Middlegate – is the lonely road.
Persons traveling alone are more likely to respond with the help of the local with a motorcycle through Utah, I had some mechanical problems and a good ole boy with a pickup truck that brought me to town until I helped to find a hardware store, to improvise, which I had to cut back on the road. It was late at night when they took the bike handling and the wife of the good old boy insisted that he spend the night in his room. I also made dinner. I was wondering if perhaps the term “bike tour solo without assistance” was misleading. One thing that I have, no matter where you go I found is that most people are kind and decent and good and ready – even eager – a hand, lend themselves to a single pair.
Solo travelers are more likely to make new friends in Kansas, I stopped for lunch at a deli and a young man fresh out of the tractor for the day standing at the bar talking, while my secretary made the sandwich. When I go to pick up my tray to a table, said: “It ‘just come sit with me, nobody wants to eat alone.” And for lunch I made a new friend and learned of a lifestyle very different from mine. When I was traveling with a group that probably never had the opportunity to meet with him.
One of the most common questions people ask me to travel alone is “how to deal with the loneliness?” What I found is the greatest gift of traveling solo adventures are the people you meet on the street. Far from being a feeling of isolation and loneliness opens, adventure travel the world alone, it would be impossible with a group or a traveling companion. An insulating layer that really do not find what you were expecting to find now – often when you are traveling in a group, the experience is filtered through the existing group dynamic. When traveling alone, but are forced to meet people and learn about their world in their world, instead they are introduced. If the traveler needs for food, accommodation, travel, or just someone to talk to, nothing happens until you find someone new. Take a journey as a solo traveler I have a lot of time alone, but with every mile that more and more convinced that I never really alone.