{"id":3838,"date":"2024-09-05T13:28:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T20:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=3838"},"modified":"2024-09-06T15:09:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T22:09:04","slug":"solo-traveling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2024\/09\/05\/solo-traveling\/","title":{"rendered":"Solo Traveling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/travel\/tips\/i-ve-been-traveling-alone-for-a-decade-these-are-the-biggest-challenges-i-face-as-a-female-solo-traveler\/ar-BB1jLt9t?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=U531&amp;cvid=92d880e12bd44038a0466b3584c3f769&amp;ei=76\">I&#8217;ve been traveling alone for a decade. These are the biggest challenges I face as a female solo traveler.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seems an honest assessment &#8211; traveling solo is, for most, a choice, not a requirement. If that is what one prefers to do, then by all means do that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will try to post more on solo travel, in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have done some domestic trips as a solo traveler &#8211; at least once to Yellowstone NP (tent camping, off season), once to Arizona (after severe burnout), once to Southern Utah, and once briefly, after attending a conference. Unfortunately, I became ill with influenza on the first day and had to drive back home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is privileged to have traveled all over the world: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/emilyventures\/\">Emily Hart \ud83d\udc9c | solo travel (@emilyventures) \u2022 Instagram photos and videos<\/a> and to have <em>pretty privilege<\/em> &#8211; all of her Instagram travel photos are of her, not the destination. Thus becoming a social media influencer makes sense. (See <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2022\/08\/11\/is-pretty-privilege-a-thing-on-social-media-platforms\/\">Is \u201cpretty privilege\u201d a \u201cthing\u201d on social media platforms?<\/a> for more on the types of &#8220;privilege&#8221; including pretty privilege. There&#8217;s a shorter version of that post here: <a href=\"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/2019\/09\/05\/a-unique-take-on-pretty-privilege-which-explains-much-about-instagram\/\">\u201cPretty Privilege\u201d explains much about Instagram \u2013 Social Panic<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A former teacher, she now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/emilyahart\/\">travels and writes full time<\/a> as a social media influencer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reasonably honest assessment of the challenges of traveling solo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-globally-experienced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}