Do you make an effort to meet other solo travelers to have some temporary travel buddies, find locals to use as a "guide", or do you just stay alone the whole trip?
>>2896270Yeah, I stay in hostels and often meet guys I hang out with, but because I'm ugly I never get to go out with any girls, and just have to endure listening to my hostel crushes make out with Chad they just met in the bed above me. But hey, nothing beats getting a drink with the lads anyway
It wasn't too hard to find people to interact with when I was staying in hostels but that was before covid things might have changed. One big thing though that a lot of people are open to socializing despite being on their phones, looking disinterested. Zoomers don't understand body language, so you just gotta be brazen and autistic.
>>2896270I’ve been completely isolated for almost 10 years since I was 25 so people can just smell that on me. I have less visible expressive body language and can’t meet the threshold for the kind of Normie enthusiasm for life you’re supposed to show. When they pick up on that they quickly retreat, the “fucking loser” bell goes off in their mind
>>2896397Are you me?
>>2896416We’re not so different, you and I….
>>2896397>I have less visible expressive body language and can’t meet the threshold for the kind of Normie enthusiasmYou put it very well, many of us don't meet the treshold for basic human bonding.You can be totally independent to travel to the other side of the word, speak other languages, deal with hotels, restaurants, scammers and do basic talks, BUT yet can't bond with anyone.It's like with picrel, you just now something's off without even interacting with him. A face like this is bad news, peoples instinct tell them to avoid him. There's levels to it, he's a total schizo, but people can feel even if you have one 10th of his vibe.
>>2896440you talk like a faggit and your shit's all retarded
>>2896270I usually end up hanging with other solo travellers. One of my first experiences with that was rustling together a group with some guy I met on the overnight bus, a guy who was staying at my hostel and two chicks I introduced myself to at a cafe because I wanted to split the hire costs of a jeep into the Himalayas. We were only together for a week (well, some of us met up again later) but it was a great time.
Be content with being alone. Plan the trip with the express idea that you have to find and make your own fun. If you happen to meet people along the way great. When you start planning your trips with the expectations that you're going to meet other travelers you start relying on variables outside of your, control. Also, as someone who stayed in hostels into into their early 30s(I don't anymore) it's not as great as it seems. >Go out drinking>One guy is always aggressive trying to fuck whatever hostel slag joins>Have to listen to each others very similar travel story >Follow everyone on Instagram >Go to sleep and never see any of them again>Repeat nightly for entire 3 month tripIt gets old. Learn to be comfortable being alone
>>2896270I love traveling solo because I enjoy being alone, its honestly rather annoying whenever another solo traveler or local tries to socialise with me when I'm eating or having a drink.
