013 Traveling Solo for Clarity and Confidence, Laura Austin
Curiosityness
Travis DeRose
4.8 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Laura's first solo trip began as a planned trip with her boyfriend to White Sands, New Mexico. After a swift breakup she decided to go on the trip anyways which lead to a new clarity and self confidence. In fact, the trip was so powerful and healing for Laura that she decided to take a trip by herself every New Year's.
Laura is also the author of SOLO: A Guidebook to Traveling Alone to help folks learn and understand the benefits of traveling solo. On top of that, she is currently on a 2 month road trip around the U.S traveling in a 16 foot long Airstream Nest trailer (with disco mode lighting).
In this episode Laura and I talk about the stigma of females traveling alone, the perfect ice breaker to make friends on the road, issues with security, karaoke parties, the kindness of strangers, why she prefers traveling alone for the most part, and even catching alligators!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Whoa! This is episode 13 of campers and vans getting coffee. Thirteen, spooky. Okay, this episode's cool. |
| 0:12.0 | I have on Laura Austin. It's a bit different. She is traveling solo in her 16-foot-long airstream nest trailer. She's currently on, or at the time we |
| 0:24.9 | recorded this, she was currently on a two-month road trip around the entire U.S. just visiting a |
| 0:30.9 | bunch of stuff is a pretty crazy, fast-paced trip. So we talk about that. But Laura's also the |
| 0:36.5 | author of a book called Solo, a guidebook |
| 0:39.3 | to Traveling Alone. That's available to purchase at Urban Outfitters. So we talk a lot about |
| 0:45.8 | that too, like traveling alone and solo and kind of the benefits of that and what that means |
| 0:50.8 | and that kind of the clarity and help that you can get from that. |
| 0:55.5 | And we discuss like how it kind of evolved for her, |
| 0:58.5 | like how her first solo trip happened, |
| 1:01.0 | sort of not under the best circumstances, |
| 1:04.6 | but it happened. |
| 1:05.3 | And then it turned out to be a positive thing. |
| 1:07.0 | And we talk about all this stuff. |
| 1:08.3 | So it's super cool. |
| 1:09.8 | I definitely recommend to keep listening since you're already here. Why not? We talk about a about all this stuff. So it's super cool. I definitely recommend to keep listening |
| 1:11.7 | since you're already here. Why not? We talk about a lot of fun stuff with all that. Plus, |
| 1:16.5 | we talk about, you know, karaoke parties, Laura catches alligators. We talk about why she prefers |
| 1:23.2 | traveling alone for the most part, the stigma of female travelers, all this cool stuff. |
| 1:29.2 | So without further ado, here is Laura Austin, and here is the episode. |
| 1:36.0 | Hello, Laura, thanks for being on the show. |
| 1:38.4 | Hi, Travis. Yeah, thanks for having me. |
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