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.
>>2896270No, other travellers don't want to know or experience outside their own bubble. I was in a hostel where some new guys came in and we're right next to me, didn't even say hello.
Oldfag here, I travel for fun internationally about once a month but sometimes I'll skip a month. Been at it for two years. Always solo and never with an intent to meet anyone, Just out here to explore our blue marble before I leave. Being alone is the best. no one to consult, no one to get in the way if the wind blows me in another direction. Having the time of my life and nearing 50 countries.
>>2896416based, literally me, being alone is amazing
>sign up for food/nightlife tour>talk to the other solo travelers>exchange contact info with the ones i like the most>meet up for dinners/drinks at nights. sometimes during the day if i really like themI'd say I have about a 75% success rate doing that
>>2896913Also I dont do this very frequently. Only when the social itch begins to creep in 2-3 weeks into a solo trip
>>2896913This almost works for me, except for the fact that everyone only uses Insta
>>2896913But what if you just want to chat instead of consooming overpriced dinners & drinks? I guess you can do that with the other brokies in the hostel kitchen.>>2896390It's exhausting to try and break a phone addict away from his screen, especially if they are a socially awkward white guy/girl. You have to achieve pajeet-tier levels of shameless optimism and insistent friendliness.>>2896397Low energy people are so draining to socialize with.>>2896440Nutcases can have the most fascinating insights if they aren't hateful. Hateful nutcases (whether self-hating or sneeringly misanthropic) are extremely repellent, because their only emotive energy comes from hate. Otherwise, they feel/express nothing.
>>2896920>low energy peopleIt’s just that they eventually realize i have absolutely nothing going on. No friends or social activities.Im always the one who shows up to their gatherings alone but i don’t have any way to reciprocate because I simply do not know how to be a host of a fun time. I have nothing to offer. I’m like an animated corpse The hookers only know the act I show them for 20-30 minutes and then thankfully they leave and probably aren’t questioning or wondering what’s going on, but normal people absolutely will start to wonder…I managed to surround myself with people that always just did everything for me and I reaped the benefits of their efforts, kind of like a hot girl. But I’m not a hot girl, I’m an aging 35 year old loser
>>2896917Exact same here. It didn't work well until I started an instagram profile. I just upload like 4-5 pictures per year from my trips so my profile isnt completely dead, but other than that I use it purely to communicate with people I meet on my trips. When I'm home I never use it
>>2896931You have no internal sense of self-worth so you need external people and things to validate your existence
>>2896931Don't you have anything interesting you like to talk about with other people? When I meet temporary travel buddies I literally could not give less of a shit if they have zero or a hundred friends back home, as long as they're interesting or fun to talk to
>>2896936>muh srlf worth, muh validationTemporal existence alone has always been insufficiently stimulating for the large brains of Homo sapiens. We crave complexity by nature. Even the most primitive peoples live in a self-created universe of elaborate mythologies, complex rituals and tangled relationships. In fact, one could argue that somebody whose life involves none of this is partially braindead...hardly something to brag about.
>>2896962Wow so deep. There's nothing better than being around retarded normies and talking about goyball, tv shows, and how becka is totes a bitch. Asides from sex, interacting with people is a waste of time and for people too spineless to do anything by themselves.
>>2896977You attract what you radiate. If all the people you interact with are garbage, it might be time to look inwards
>>2896962I'm not saying he needs to go without it. I'm saying he's a sad excuse of a man that sees the world through a consensus filter like a woman. He's basically a tranny and no one likes trannies
>>2897002Most people are retarded and asocial. I think you don't live in reality and you're just projecting. I remember backpacking pre-covid every hostel I went to was majority social media zombies. No one talks to each other or cares about anything asides from their social media profiles and its been that way since 2013.
>>2897067NTA but that's not been my experience at all. I've always had pretty good experiences meeting people at hostels.
>>2896936I literally do not care about other people because my self worth is so high you dingbat. Complete opposite >>2896940This is reassuring, I guess im just being hard on myself
>>2897067I've never stayed in hostels so I don't know what kind of people stay there. But when doing this >>2896913 I do meet a lot of mature and well-rounded people. Maybe it's an age issue, maybe poor people are like you describe or maybe we visit very different places, I don't know. But we are definitely not meeting the same kinds of people
>>2897094>This is reassuring, I guess im just being hard on myselfYou are. I've met so many guys like you, who just started coming out of their shell and had an instagram profile with like 1 or 2 followers, who blossomed socially when they simply stopped giving a shit about their loser-status back home. Nobody cares, solo travelers just want to talk and have a bit of fun for a couple of days before you part ways
>>2897146>Nobody caresCorrection: almost nobody cares. And the few people who do care are not the kinds of people you want to be friends with anyways, so no loss
>>2896441Shut the fuck up if you have nothing to contribute
>>2897011>no one likes tranniesWhat about asian ones?
>>2896913All of this is too much hassle for a short trip to have fake conversation with people you'll never see again after a day or two. But that's what insecure faggots do because they need constant validation rather than doing things on their own.
>>2897185The only purpose of "meeting" people on trips is to get laid. Meet a woman? Opportunity to get laid. Meet a man? Opportunity to go to the bar with a wingman who can help you get laid It's all about getting laid
>>2897157those are called Lady boys. they don't believe that they are women
>>2896931you're another pathetic old man who has the arrogance to still go out in public and embarrass yourself being seen and you're an embarrassment to everyone around you
>>2897450Time moves fast. You're an annoying retarded twat right now.In 10 years, you will be an old annoying retarded twat
>>2896270I'll say that it is extremely rewarding to target first time solo travel girls in Japan. One of the reasons I love going solo in Japan. I choose flights that land after 10pm at Kansai Int'l Airport and take the train into the city by the time we get to the interchange station I go with asking about the correct platform for my next trains and offering help with her bags up the stairs trying to closing with her number or plans to get late night "ramen" at Dotonbori. I picked up a 19 year old blonde Danish girl and had her raw. On the train I saw fat tits hiding under her airplane sweater and she seemed overwhelmed with her shitty rolling luggage. The sheer amount of tourists to Japan means that there's girls like these in every train carriage. Last week I spotted a cute asian-american tourist whilst alighting the metro and I followed her to her destination which was a hip coffee shop and lined up behind her. I made up my intro with a play on the "have we met before" thing. Grabbed her number and fucked her after taking her out at night. She was actually from Hong Kong, international school type. She was super receptive to my cold approach. Japan is perfect for this because everyone is antisocial there and most people will light up if you're social with them.
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>>2897460I genuinely don’t believe any of this unless you post face and show you’re a Chad
>>2897472You don't need to be Chad to fuck on vacation. Women go on vacation so they can slum it and try out lots of different penises.
>>2897460this is a beginner or a larp. once you get good at cold approach you stop going for same day lays because the expected value is so low>>2897480No they dont. they go on vacation so they can waste your time and cloutpost on IG
>>2897574>>2897480This is just incel posting. Only losers travel to try to get stink
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