take a vacation alone

Its not far but next summer I want to travel to Wales to the other side of the country to have some me time. I just turned 18 so I feel like its time to grow up now and become a real adult. I’m going to drive my self to Wales, stay in a lovely B&B while doing a corset making course, meet some new people, and generally just chill the hell out. I’ve been so stressed from college and now I have left I need regain some of the control I feel I lost from only ever doing anything for other people.

A while back I was just over the hussel and bussel. I was tired of my friends not being responsible/irresponsible enough to do it. So I just took off and went to Breckenridge, all by myself. I went shopping, and out to dinners, out on th town in the evening. I had a ball doing whatever I wanted to do. After much a do I have finally planned and purchased a Jamiacan vacation. I cannot wait to be in the peace and quiet of the surf against the sand.

April 2010 – WDW!!! YAYAY

I have wanted to do this for a while. I would say I did this summer when I went to L.A. but that didnt count since I was not completely alone. I am going to start out small by doing a 3 day weekend trip 1st and expand my options from there.

I would like to travel with someone else, but all of my friends are broke and I really want to go someplace so should I just give up my dream just because my friends don’t have money? Or if they do, they will like to go someplace I’m not that interested in. Should I rather go alone to a place I’m interested in or with my friends to a place I’m not so into? AND, won’t it be boring to just be alone?

IT IS AWESOME!!
You won’t regret it. I hope you’re a friendly type and just talk to everyone you see.
I went to St Augustine for 3 day weekend last year and had the best vacation of my life.
This year I took a cruise alone. I went to the Cayman Islands and Cozumel Mexico.
I’m glad I went but Carnival cruises suck!!
I met so many nice people on board the ship. I still email with one couple I met.
Go, you’ll love it.

I will be going to Monterey, California in October. Technically it’s a business trip, but since I will be traveling alone and staying alone in a hotel room, and I am actually going somewhere fun and can go out to eat and to the aquarium and stuff, I say it counts as a vacation alone.

If I go to that con I’ll be accomplishing this at the same time, most likely.

I’m up for being away by myself and have done it lots of times for work. I love the idea of lying in the sun, learning about my surroundings at my own pace, reading and listening to every song on my ipod.

The only thing stopping me is eating alone in the evenings. I reckon I’d feel awkward and would think that people were staring and feeling sorry for me, even though I know it’s more likely that hardly anyone would notice.

It would be nice to visit a place and be able to spend as long as I like staring at a plant that has pushed its way up through the sidewalk instead of being rushed along by someone else’s imagined schedule.