Greetings. No real question here, just sharing my solotravel "journey" with the community. It's a bit different than the usual "backpacker gone for months", but it's a perspective I don't see much here...or maybe I haven't just lurked long enough.

I'm 38 and from austria. Normal, big european guy. So I can't relate to some experiences of the younger crowd, or those of women, because let's face it, nobody is gonna harass me. I wish that was the case for everyone, but the world sucks sometimes. But I can offer some points I discovered for myself from the viewpoint of a normal guy with an office job that gets a few weeks to travel a year.

For a long time, my last vacation was a trip to Tunesia with my parents. That was somewhere back in the 90s. No real vacation since then, until my uncle gifted me a short trip to London for my 30th birthday. Took us a while to get there because, well...the pest...but it was a good trip.…