I don’t travel to get away from my life

I travel alone to quickly push myself waaay outside my comfort zone.

I travel alone to abruptly reveal all my current buffering and self-sabotaging patterns (too many Outlander episodes, anyone?)

I travel alone so that I can get quiet.

When it’s quiet, the Universe can finally tell me what it’s been trying to tell me had I not been doing-and-going and distracting myself – even the distractions I love the most. (Hello my adorable puppy who always needs attention!)

I travel alone because when I get home, I’m always much happier, stronger and more steadily standing on my own two feet.

And the things that were “hard,” are no longer hard after traveling alone.

I travel alone to break the addictive patterns that just simply build up when you’re doing the same thing day to day.

(I find it fascinating to throw a wrench in everyday routines, just to see what will happen!)

I travel alone not to get away from home, but because I have a solid home foundation.

This solid foundation of having a family at home is grounding when traveling alone.

And traveling alone always allows me to miss and appreciate the husband and our pup.

While traveling alone, life and your immediate experience is often raw, vulnerability-inducing and a lot of times, a giant, pain-in-the -ass!

So I travel alone to exercise the patience muscle, because it gets so tested every minute that I travel alone.

Like when you pick a location for it’s warm, sunny weather and it’s cold, windy and rainy. 😆

I travel alone to practice trust

TRUST IN MYSELF, and…

TRUST THAT KIND, GENEROUS, HUMANS are always out there, looking to help.

But we have to get out from under the covers and out of our comfort zones to find them.

Pema Chödrön says life happens outside the cave.

Friendly cab drivers, baristas…

Or my Zen Uber driver in Granada, that literally told me,“cálmate!”

That I didn’t have anything to worry about, we would get to the bus station in plenty of time.

(We did.)

And he had a great playlist!

Angels are always ready to show up and make traveling alone a little less lonely.

The Winter 2020 trip has been one of the first solo-trips where I’ve let things go and let the plans come together without planning more than a couple days at a time.

It’s about 10,000x more fun and much more relaxed when I let go and let myself be guided in the moment, versus the many months of micro-managed travel plans I’ve control-freak planned and participated in.

(This is applicable to business and life, amiright?)

I travel alone in so I can get quiet and feel creativity pulsing through me.

So I can get clarity on my big visions and dreams and how I want to help others.

AND when there a no distractions so when inspired, why not work?

I travel alone for all of those heart-wrenching moments when you just can’t believe how kind, hilarious and generous total strangers can be.

I travel alone to reconnect with my adventure and nature values.

Exciting trails, new vistas, jaw-dropping landscapes, train rides = new, fresh perspective and a surge of genuine confidence!

I travel alone to feed my soul and restore faith in myself and humanity…

So I can come back fully-charged, creatively-inspired and ready to serve.

Why I travel alone. It’s not what you think…