“Solo Travel = Memories. Group Travel = Compromise

Solo travel is probably one of the hardest thing out there, people call it expensive therapy, soul searching, or for people with no friends, but let’s be real, solo travelling is for those who don’t want to miss out on life because their group chat cannot figure out a time and a place to hang out, it’s for those that don’t want to argue and compromise on things to make others happy (I mean would you want to compromise on things when the flights alone cost $3000) and yes it is also for those doing some soul searching, those wanting ‘transformative experiences, freedom, and flexibility’ and what of it? (pictured above is me on my first solo trip, searching for something more)

Solo travelling is fun, it’s exhilarating, you don’t know who you’re going to meet, fall in love with or the memories you’re going to make.

Solo travel is for those with enough courage to get up and go, for those not scared to change the person they are to be the best version of themselves, because you can’t solo travel and come back as the person you once were, it’s not possible to see the world in the same way.        

Group trips however there are always issues, budgets, itinerary, anything, there’s always drama and sometimes there’s even group breakups, who goes on holiday and wants that? Sure, you want to go that random church 30 minutes away, fine, cool but as they say ‘seen one church seen them all’ – me, and there you have it. Conflict. (Pictured above is me with a group of new friends in Lake Atilan)

To travel in a group and all want to do the same thing all the time without it getting messy would have to be some form of witchcraft…

because it’s just a fact of life that not every single person you hang out with is going to have the exact same interest as you, why bother with fighting the different opinions and just go solo and form a group of likeminded individuals as you go.

The solo community is a lot bigger than one would think, every place you go from Lake Atilan, Guatemala right to a place like the festival Tomorrowland there’s a hostel, a Facebook page or a WhatsApp group with a heap of people wanting to hangout and make friends so literally who needs the hassle of trying to organise a group trip when there is groups waiting for you in every corner of the world, and those people, they want the same as you so you don’t have to fight with them, you can make memories not compromises. (Solo at Tomorrowland)

Kathryn (20554914)