Challenges of Solo International Travel

Solo travel is hard. (Save this post for your first or next solo adventure) A lot harder than I thought it would be. And for my first international solo experience, I visited Iceland, which is rated one of the best places to solo travel. Especially as a female and I would have to agree with this rating. But Do you want to know what went wrong? 👇🏻 -Arriving and not being able to find the shuttle to get my rental car -Having the initial rental car company switch me to a new company because the car I was supposed to get broke -My European SIM card didn’t work in Iceland leaving me stranded -It took me 2 hours to find a local place to eat in Reykjavik and I’m someone who doesn’t do well when food is taken out of the equation -I woke up on my third day thinking it was my fourth and skipped half the things I wanted to see to rush to get my test to get home -That test ended up saying I was born in 2017 instead of 1993 and they questioned even putting me on the plane to go home. And the list goes on. Now you know what went wrong and none of those things are catastrophic, but man did they feel like it once they started piling up. There is a lesson in each one of those things I listed above, but this biggest takeaway that hit me on my drive to the airport as I worried about how I was going to feel about this trip when I got home is; everything else went right. I still had an amazing trip and I cried so many tears of pure bliss seeing a country I never truly knew I would see! (you'll see some of this crying in my stories in the next few days 🤪) Solo traveling is hard but making memories with yourself is better than anything that could go wrong! Have you taken an international solo trip? If so, where? If not, do you want to? What’s stopping you?