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There’s no shame in dining alone.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Since last week started off with a dose of unbridled honesty, it only seems right that I should continue in the same vein. So here\u2019s my confession: I love compiling helpful posts and good reads from around the web in my weekly Weekend Intelligence post and I\u2019ve traditionally included around five posts or so each week. But the truth is that it\u2019s not always easy to find five posts that I love. I really hate including mediocre items just to get the number up to five because it\u2019s a waste of your time and mine.<\/p>\n

So, that said, my weekend post is going through a bit of a metamorphosis. I don\u2019t exactly know where it\u2019s going but I\u2019m fairly certain it\u2019s going to move away from simply regurgitating information I find on the web. It may include just one really awesome post or article that makes me think and provokes a response. But I promise that whatever I include will be helpful and\/or inspiring or just flat-out entertaining.<\/p>\n

Jane Ganahl, author and journalist, wrote\u00a0poignantly on what it means to be single and the idea of traveling alone. \u201cAll my significant travel during my single years has been in the company of someone — daughter, sister, friend, lover,\u201d she writes. \u201c As a single woman, the idea of solo travel has always proven a bit daunting. I don’t mind dining alone occasionally, but that’s different than taking on an entire\u00a0country<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

I got stuck on the fact the Ganahl feels perfectly content eating out alone and that her anxiety about solo travel stems from having to approach the whole “traveling alone” experience. But in conversing with people who are a bit anxious about traveling alone, one of the biggest sources of anxiety I\u2019ve encountered has actually been about dining alone. While crossing from Sausalito to San Francisco by ferry on my West Coast trip last September, for instance, \u00a0I struck up a conversation with a youngish woman who was surprised and impressed that I was traveling by myself. \u201cIt\u2019s not that hard,\u201d I told her. \u201cAnyone can do it.\u201d She said that as much as she\u2019d like to do the same, she harbored some anxiety about eating by herself.<\/p>\n

What I told her? Nobody cares that you\u2019re eating by yourself<\/strong>. I don\u2019t know about you, but if I\u2019m at a really good restaurant and the food is superb, the last thing I\u2019m thinking about is the person in the corner dining solo. If the food is bad, I\u2019ll probably glance over at the other patrons to see what they ordered and if they\u2019re enjoying it but the truth is most people are too consumed with their own meal and companions to think about you and why you\u2019re dining by yourself.\u00a0There are the occasional negative reactions (like on my first semi-solo trip, I went to a little Cajun restaurant in Old Sacramento where the host’s eyes bugged out\u00a0this far<\/em> when I told him I needed a table for one) but they’re usually isolated incidents.<\/p>\n

Still feel uncomfortable about the thought of eating by yourself? Here are a few tips:<\/p>\n

Enjoy your meal<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Seriously.\u00a0Don’t just eat–savor.\u00a0Focus on the flavors, the textures, the smells. Think about how what you’re eating makes you feel. Attach pleasant memories to the experience of eating alone.<\/p>\n

Write in your travel journal<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Meals make excellent break points during the day to collect your thoughts and record your day’s activities on paper.<\/p>\n

Read the local paper<\/strong><\/h2>\n

One of the best ways to immerse yourself in the local culture is to get familiar with the local news and issues of the day. It adds an extra layer of awareness to your travels.<\/p>\n

Plan your next move<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Hunker down with your guidebook and plot your plan of attack. Sure, you made an itinerary weeks before your trip, but what sounds interesting\u00a0right now<\/em>?<\/p>\n

Connect with people from home<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Whether you’re writing postcards or using your smartphone to capture a photo of what you’re eating to share with friends and family back home, it’s a nice reminder that simply because you’re traveling by yourself doesn’t mean that you’re completely alone.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s true that solo travel offers unique opportunities for self-examination; reservations \u00a0about dining alone provide perhaps one of the most telling opportunities for self-reflection. Why would you\u2014should you\u2014be uncomfortable dining alone? Afraid people will think you\u2019re a lonely loser?<\/p>\n

The\u00a0real question: why do you care what other people\u2014strangers, no less–think? <\/strong>Be comfortable with who you are and secure in your worth as a person, whether you’re part of a group or on your own.<\/p>\n

Just some food for thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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