HeyJaredThe Solo Globetrotter
Personal essays on solo travel, freedom, identity, culture, and the inner life of becoming.
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Can you please take my photo? (opens the original)
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Can you please take my photo? They are just six simple words. I’ve stood in front of some of the most photographed objects on earth, working up to it like a woman about to ask for a pay rise, because some of us travel alone and are shy to ask for little things.And I’ve got almost nothing to show for the asking, which I could live with, except that I’ve kept all of it. Every failure. A decade of them, in a folder, which I’ve looked at more often than I’ve looked at the good photographs.<
Hostel Life: A Beautiful Way to Meet People You Never Needed to Meet (opens the original)
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Eleven years of this and I could not draw you the layout of a single hostel I have stayed in. The people who kept me awake in them, however, I could describe under oath.Barcelona, or: Everything I Know About FootballBarcelona, 3 AM, and two men came into the dorm still arguing about football.Thanks for reading The Solo Globetrotter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<input class="email-input" name="email"
Don't Ask Me for Directions. (opens the original)
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I have, more than once, been asked if I’d consider leading a walking tour. I want to be clear that I have never once received this as a compliment.People often ask how I manage to travel alone. I think they imagine I possess excellent instincts, extraordinary courage and possibly an internal compass that activates as soon as I cross a border. I usually give them a respectable answer about research and preparation because there is no need to damage my professional reputation voluntarily.T
Table for One, Please. And Don’t Make It Weird. (opens the original)
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“Just one?”Two words, said with a particular kind of gentle surprise, as though one is a number that requires confirmation before they proceed, the way a pharmacist might double-check a dosage before handing over the prescription. Thanks for reading The Solo Globetrotter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<input class="button primary"
Things I Lie to Myself About Before Every Trip (opens the original)
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I have been traveling alone for over a decade and I still lie to myself before every single trip. The logistics I usually get right. It’s the other stuff. The quiet promises, the small confident agreements I make with myself about who I am going to be this time, what I’m going to do differently, how this particular trip is going to go. None of them survive the first forty-eight hours. I make them anyway, every single time, with complete sincerity, as though I have not done this before and the ev
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