Everything You’ve Wanted to Ask About Solo Travel

Women Who Travel | Condé Nast Traveler

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Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.4 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

While our mantra is to be fearless, adventurous, and borderless, traveling alone can be a legitimate concern for all demographics: Are you treated differently when you travel by yourself? How do you push beyond your comfort zone? And why travel alone in the first place? There will be plenty of debates, anecdotes, and travel hacks to tune into, and we hope you enjoy listening to our first episode as much we did recording it.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Meredith Carey from Women Who Travel. While Lala and I will be back next week with a brand new episode, we wanted to throw it back to the very first one that we ever recorded.
0:08.9	It was all about solo travel and we were joined by Aaron Floreo, Jessica Nabongo, and Cynthia Drescher, all of whom are now women who travel regulars.
0:16.6	Solo travel assuming comes up all the time on the podcast, and we wanted to look back at the good and the bad of traveling on your own.
0:23.0	Once you're done listening to the episode, we'd love to hear from you about the best time that you had traveling by yourself.
0:27.8	Feel free to tweet at us. I'm at Oh Hey There Mayor, Lolle's at at Lolle Ericoglu, and let us know. Enjoy.
0:46.3	Hi. now. Enjoy. Hey! Hey! Hey! Hi, this is Women Who Travel, a new podcast from Koday Nas Traveler that digs deep into the realities of traveling as a woman today and celebrates why we'll never stay home.
0:51.3	I'm Lale Arakogu and with me today is my co-host Meredith Carey. Well hello.
0:56.0	For our first ever episode, we're joined by senior editor Erin Floreo, Jessica Nabongo,
1:02.0	founder of boutique travel firm Jet Black and the blog Catch Me If You Can, and Cynthia Drescia,
1:06.5	a regular traveler contributor and is currently sitting in the Baldives.
1:10.5	I know, it's like super late at night for you
1:12.1	right? Yeah it's almost midnight. Awesome. Well we are starting this first episode kind of just
1:19.6	giving you guys a little rundown of what we're doing. We have a regular weekly podcast here at
1:25.4	kindness traveler called travelogue and we decided Lale and I that we needed something that kind of spoke to us and what we have been working on.
1:35.6	Lolle's been leading our Women Who Travel Package that goes up every March for the last year now.
1:40.5	And we decided that we wanted to kind of cover the highs and lows and
1:44.8	everything in between of travel from a women's perspective and so we're starting out.
1:50.6	Yeah, and out of our Women Who Travel Package in March was born our Women Who Travel
1:55.0	Facebook group, which I think has been a resounding success. It is now 30K strong in members.
2:02.4	And, you know, it's just filled with all these wonderful voices talking about how much they love travel,
2:08.0	asking questions about travel, sharing stories.
2:10.8	And it's grown into a real community.
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