I have been fortunate enough to be able to solo travel on and off for several years, and I am always meeting people who say things like “you’re so brave to travel alone” and “aren’t you scared being a woman?”
Understandably most of the solo travel questions I get asked the most are about safety for solo female travelers.
Most of the time, it’s the ladies asking these questions, and considering violence against women knows no borders, is completely understandable.
“I am thinking about traveling on my own but I am not sure how to go about it, and to be honest, I am a bit nervous.” is a phrase I hear often.
But it’s not just safety that you should be asking questions about before you solo travel. Below I have shared some of the top questions about solo travel you should ask yourself, especially as a woman (though men should ask these to), so you can see how prepared you are for traveling alone.
Is it Different For Solo Female Travelers?
For me, and I suspect for many solo female travelers, safety is a separate issue.
I always consider myself a traveler first and foremost, oh, and I just happen to have two X chromosomes.
I try not to let the term ‘solo female traveler’ define me, but I am also not going to ignore that it’s a necessary category nowadays. You can read this full manifesto about it.
When I first started traveling on my own, it didn’t even occur to me to be concerned about not having someone else with me. Call me naive, but I just wanted to go to Paris and all my study abroad friends had other plans.
Pretty much everything that could go wrong, did go wrong that weekend, but I returned home filled with a whole lot of new lessons under my belt and an urge to try again.
The world is a forgiving place, and it’s much safer than people and media make it out to be.
I’ve almost never been in a situation overseas where I felt scared or threatened. Twenty minutes from my parents’ house in Washington D.C.? That’s another story.
It’s usually the case that you find more trouble at home than you do abroad, because when you are at home, you let your guard down. When you travel, you put up a wall and are often taking added precautions not to get into difficult situations.
Thinking back, sometimes I ask myself what are things I wish I had known before I started traveling. What could I have done differently? Which leads me on to…
Questions to Ask Before You Travel…
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