Solo Female Travel Quotes

We don’t know what’s coming next, but we can go to it with purpose. We can go to it dancing.

Remember: this is not a guidebook, it is a map. Wander at your whimsy.

sometimes, something happens that jolts you to reality and causes you to reevaluate what’s important in life and what you really want out of it. For

Aimlessness isn’t purposelessness. Not to me. Aimlessness isn’t meaningless. Quite the contrary. Aimlessness isn’t absence from life, it is full-bodied presence in it. To wander aimlessly is to move through the world without the conceit that we actually know what is coming next. That is, to move through the world with grace.

Seek joy. Seek more questions than answers. Seek jobs, friends, lovers, homes in which or with whom you feel utterly yourself. Better yet, seek experiences that challenge you to become even more yourself — that is, to grow. And if you should find more growth in movement, do not stop moving. And if you should find more meaning in stillness, stay still. And if at the end you still should wonder if you ever did find your calling, look back over the one inimitable path behind you, and ask your footsteps what you have learned. Hint: The right questions lead not to answers, but to doors. We don’t find our calling, we walk it.

I consider stubbornness to be one of my most endearing personality traits.

I don’t like guidebooks. I don’t like self-help-style “you must do this to be happy” rhetoric. I really don’t like dogmatic, authoritative injunctions of any kind telling me how to live my life. And if my intuition about you, dear reader, is at all accurate, neither do you.

Be optimistic. People and places have so much more good in them than meets the eye. Don't listen, don't listen, don't listen—to them. Bring your ear to rest on your chest, and listen: the whole point is to live.

Out of fear, I held onto what was easy and familiar for years even though it was at odds with what my soul longed to do – I wanted to be free. I also couldn’t shake the feeling that something just wasn’t right with my life at that point.

Most people know the feeling of déjà vu. It’s when you can’t quite place it, but you know you’ve felt exactly that way before in another time and another place. There’s an opposite to this feeling called jamais vu. It’s when you go back to the same place but nothing about it is familiar, and you feel like nothing but strangers surround you.

He believes that most people who travel long-term had a moment like this, a shock to the head, as he called it. I

Sometimes, something magical happens when you travel: you remember exactly why you’re doing it, and you’re so happy and present in that moment. Sometimes it’s the people you meet; sometimes it’s the places you’re at. Sometimes, it’s both.

Most of all, I just feel grateful. I feel grateful for everything that happened, even if it seemed frustrating or heartbreaking at the time. When I look back on it now, even the things that seemed like they were taking me backwards were really pushing me forward, and that’s how I’ve come to realize life is. It’s about trusting in the journey and fully surrendering to it, knowing that the steps that I’m taking right now are bringing me to where I’m meant to be eventually. Even this moment, one day, as I sit here unsure of what’s to come, will be poignant and pleasing to think back on. The only thing that is clear to me right now is that my wandering isn’t finished. It can’t be. I’m not ready. I’ve missed everyone from California, and it’s still home, so when I say this, please don’t get me wrong: I’m coming home, but I have a plan. I won’t be staying for too long.

A vagabondess has earth and salt to balance her air. Her lifestyle is not a romantic, Instagram-filter utopia, but rather gritty and smeared with sweat. A vagabondess is not a symbol of an ideal of a life. She is alive. A vagabondess weaves magic into the everyday and touches the profound with her toes as she wanders—aimlessly, purposefully—through her inner landscape and the outer wilderness of the modern world. She unites nostalgia for a freer past and hope for a liberated future by living squarely in the present tense. For solo female travelers, the vagabondess is an attainable objective, not a holy grail. She is within easy reach, if only we look in the right place: inside.

this book is not a map, but an existential guide to a vagabondish lifestyle and perspective. If you want to hold this feeling in your hands, you will have to dig for it yourself. There is no other way, no shortcut, no online course, no magic recipe.

A path always makes so much more sense in retrospect.

I don’t like guidebooks. I don’t like self-help-style “you must do this to be happy” rhetoric. I really don’t like dogmatic, authoritative injunctions of any kind telling me how to live my life. And if my intuition about you, dear reader, is at all accurate, neither do you. So, don’t take anything written here as an imperative. I will be the last person to tell you what you “should” or “must” do. You’ll figure out your own path; I have no doubt about it. Consider this an interpretive roadmap. My roadmap, drawn with the advantage of hindsight and the lessons from over ten years of experience in being a solo female traveler. I hope it may be of benefit to you.

Tell them about your blog. What is your blog about? Try to narrow it down to a theme. For example, my theme is intentional leadership. Next explain what kinds of things you write about. I think it is best to limit yourself to a handful of categories. The more focused your content, the more readers you will attract. Kate McCulley’s About page on Adventurous Kate’s Solo Female 104 Travel Blog gives a few fun facts about Kate (she has been shipwrecked and once made a pass at Jon Stewart; she quit her job to travel the world), and then dives right into her theme: I am a solo traveler at heart, and one of my goals is to show women that solo travel can be safe, easy, cheap and a lot of fun. Meanwhile, I’m committed to showing you what the lifestyle of a long-term traveler and online entrepreneur is like. Like anyone else in the world, I have good times and bad times, but I promise to show you reality—with honesty and humor.3