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.
Tom Test
Itasca Spirit 29B
