{"id":3171,"date":"2012-09-12T23:59:13","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T06:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wanderlustforone.com\/?p=3171"},"modified":"2023-12-27T21:23:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T01:23:20","slug":"confession-i-am-a-travel-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wanderlustforone.com\/staging\/3560\/perspectives\/confession-i-am-a-travel-chicken\/","title":{"rendered":"Confession: I Am a Travel Chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3177\" title=\"tobago-chicken\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wanderlustforone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/tobago-chicken1.jpg?resize=900%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sometimes I feel like such a fraud.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Often, while traveling solo, I&#8217;ll meet someone&#8211;usually a group of women traveling together&#8211;and we&#8217;ll exchange travel stories.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are you traveling by yourself?&#8221; they&#8217;ll ask me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll smile. &#8220;Uh-huh.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re so brave!&#8221; they&#8217;ll exclaim.<\/p>\n<p><em>No, not really.<\/em> <strong>I&#8217;m not brave.<\/strong> Not at all. I have ample experiences that say the opposite. Like the time I chickened out of snorkeling in the Virgin Islands because I&#8217;m afraid of deep water. Or the time I chickened out of driving around the Scottish Highlands because I was scared I&#8217;d end up on the wrong <del>right<\/del> side of the road. Or the time I visited the top of Seattle&#8217;s Space Needle and was terrified the entire thing would topple over if I stood too close to the edge. I have a\u00a0fear of flying and let&#8217;s not even get into <a title=\"The Birth of a Solo Traveler\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wanderlustforone.com\/travel-tales\/the-birth-of-a-solo-traveler\/\">my overactive imagination about all the things that could possibly happen to me as I travel by myself<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, no, I&#8217;m not brave. <strong>I am, in fact, a travel chicken.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even after having traveled solo for years, I still feel that small twinge of fear every time I set out on my own. But if there&#8217;s one thing I&#8217;ve learned it&#8217;s that <strong>the first step to getting over your solo travel fear is taking a first step. <\/strong>If you&#8217;re anything like me, you&#8217;ve already done all the research. <strong>Now it&#8217;s your turn to make a move.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Book that flight. Buy that train ticket. Reserve that room. Do one thing to get the ball rolling and before you know it, you&#8217;ll be striking out on your own. As philosopher Lao-tzu so aptly stated, <em>&#8220;The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What are you waiting for?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Are you a travel chicken too? What&#8217;s the one thing that scares you most about solo travel?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even after having traveled solo for years, I still feel that small twinge of fear every time I set out on my own. 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