5-MINUTE FRIDAY: I Was Frightened to Travel Solo — Until I Took My First Trip
Hurdle with Emily Abbate
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🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Wheels up, it's go time! Sharing a bit about my experience embracing solo travel, and a story about how scared I was at first before going on my inaugural trip. Plus, answering a question about what to do with training when you have a faraway goal.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody. Emily Abadi here. You're listening to Five Minute Friday from Hurtle. |
| 0:26.7 | This is kind of weird because as you may be listening to this in real time, I am currently in |
| 0:33.9 | Singapore. I'll be here for five days until I head to Tokyo and I'm doing it all solo. |
| 0:44.4 | It is absolutely wild. I feel like I'm talking to you from the future. My thoughts are entirely |
| 0:50.0 | sporadic. And yeah, wow. I am going to do a massive recap from this trip and share, as I |
| 1:02.1 | typically do the recap from the marathon that I'm running on Sunday the 3rd, about a week |
| 1:10.1 | and a half after it happens. So stay tuned for that. |
| 1:13.1 | But in the meantime, in honor of the fact that I am traveling solo again, I wanted to bring a story |
| 1:21.6 | from my first ever solo trip to the feed this week for five minute Friday. Now, I never really aspired to travel alone. |
| 1:32.1 | In fact, I, although I would do it for work, felt as though for the longest time that planning |
| 1:38.9 | a trip by myself meant that I was doing something wrong. It meant that in my mind, I couldn't find someone to do something |
| 1:46.9 | with me. And even maybe a little bit further than that, if I want to take it to that next step, |
| 1:53.7 | it was at one point saddening for me because I wanted to be taking these trips not only with |
| 2:00.2 | friends, but also perhaps with some |
| 2:03.0 | sort of a partner. Now, spoiler alert, if you don't know, I'm single. I'm in my mid-30s. And the |
| 2:11.1 | era in my life that I first decided to throw these narratives away was about, I want to say seven years ago. I was |
| 2:22.4 | living on the Upper East Side and I was living on my own. And I remember distinctly talking to a |
| 2:30.8 | girlfriend about the concept of solo travel. and this was a friend that did it regularly |
| 2:35.5 | at the time. And she said to me, well, why don't you reframe the way that you're thinking about |
| 2:41.8 | solo travel? If you're already living alone and spending a lot of time on your own and enjoy doing |
| 2:47.7 | that here in New York, then why would it be any different somewhere else? |
| 2:52.3 | And that was the first time that I started to think, okay, maybe this could be something that's good for me. |
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