Traveling Alone

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Rollin,
Good choice for a very important reason. Parking a TT or 5er in a back in site by yourself works fine until you lose sight of one of the rear corners in your mirrors. Then you're parking by sound, and that sound is "crunch". :M

All though I am not an RV owner yet, I have been alone for 10 years. I am wanting to full time when I retire. My biggest concern would be setting everything up by yourself. I am looking at a class a, around 35 feet. From all my research seems this would be easier to set up than any other type of RV. I have a daughter who lives in WI so plan on spending summers there with her. I love being alone, don't have to ask anyones opinions, get their approval on anything, don't have to shave if I don't want to, can go where I please when I please.

I have been retired for a little over three years, my wife is the CEO of her business and she works long hours. I planned when I retired to travel alone some and have been about half timing it. We miss each other when I'm gone but we talk at least once everyday and email/facebook often. When she retires at the end of this year I will probably stay home more but she will go more often. I will still spend some time on the road alone. While it may not be for everyone, it has worked for us.

I have been single most of my life.....sure is a lot more interesting traveling around in my RV than sitting at home! There are literally tons of single women RV groups (and quite a few singles RVing men-women groups too), so if I want company it is no problem. It is all about attitude!

There's also a group called "Sisters On The Fly" - a friend of mine is a member and they have meetups and do fun things. Many have restored vintage trailers - my friend's is adorable!!

Jim Shoe wrote:
I'm a lifetime single. I'm not against marriage, but by the time I started to think about settling down, all my friends, both male and female were divorced. So I'm a single RVer since retiring early at 52. I have nothing to compare it with, but I never get in arguments about the next area to visit, how long to stay, RV park selection, how level is level, how fast I'm driving, what I'm wearing or what's for dinner. OTOH, I don't have much time to enjoy the scenery as I'm driving by, I have to pull over for potty breaks, and the conversation gets pretty boring. :)

'How level is level!' Lordy that is our biggest sticking point. He is so ocd if the bubble is off by a hair, he's gotta do it all over again. And lets not even talk about 'is it straight?'

In our small group of type specific coaches, there are more than a few single women that travel alone. They don't travel solely with the group either. The ones I know well get lots of places.

My BIL is going to be a solo traveler now. He is/is not looking forward to the change.

Matt

Been alone two years and a day. Traveling has been one of the harder things to do alone because
for 45 years the whole point of travel was sharing the experience. But getting back into it gradually.

Some of my travel is to visit family and friends, so as to not be alone. Some trips I can take one or both daughters and one to three grandchildren. We share different experiences from what I would do with my wife.

I go on local campouts where I know groups of people who are going to be in the same place, or I'll let some friends know I'm going, and sometimes they'll show up. Sometimes I'm alone, not much different than being alone at home, but enough to be a break in the routine.

I've started traveling with groups, there's a travel club in my credit union: evenings out, day trips, local overnights, escorted tours, cruises. Sometimes its all one group, sometimes small part of a bigger group. I'm learning to make connections again, though that really used to be my wife's skill, I can sometimes try too hard, sometimes shrink from contact. It is getting better.

It is not all RV travel, it never was all RV. As a singles travel mode, RVing is shorter on opportunities to make new connections, or at least it is an easier way to keep being a loner.

Past year, one way or another, been traveling 1/3 to 1/2 the time, a half dozen short campouts, a short cruise withone daughter's family, a long escorted tour in the US, a river cruise in Europe, and five long road trips, one with kids and grandkids. That's not counting long weekends and longer stays with the family of the daughter who moved back to within 200 miles of me.

That's a newly alone situaton. If you've always been alone, not sure I understand the question, not much difference between living at home alone and traveling alone. Accomodation rates are usually scaled to be same whether one or two people, you get a sense of paying maybe more than you should for a single whatever, but it was always that way with business travel as well.

Biggest difference I've found is that someone alone is more often approached by strangers wanting something, whether rest areas, truck stops, diners, or on the street in cities. Having an apparent partner in your presence reduces solicitation.

Evidently quite a few Singles RV. We encountered two RVers, at the Factory in 2012 and several others before.
Most are men but we encountered a couple single or widowed Lady RVers.