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November 28, 2005
Solo Travel Can Be an Emotional Roller Coaster
Sophia Dembling's travel column in the Chicago Tribune gives us a nice glimpse into traveling solo. Some days, it's great and others it's not, "Solo travel can be an emotional roller coaster," she writes.
Most of us can probably relate to some of the difficult moments she's experienced traveling solo, especially eating alone. She writes about one evening in Helsinki where she decides to go to a restaurant alone and is asked to wait for a table while couples walk in and sit right away.
She writes " As I wait to be seated, a couple pushes past me and a waitress materializes and immediately seats them. I wait. Finally a waiter gives me the fish-eye, points me to an undesirable table by the door and hands me a menu. After brusquely taking my order, he does his best to ignore me.
Feeling awkward, unwelcome and very alone, I bury myself in my book, make it through the meal, return to my hotel through a cold drizzle and wonder why I ever liked traveling alone."
Click here to read article.
Posted by insideoutmag at November 28, 2005 09:09 AM
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