When I first became a digital nomad in 2018, I expected a life of adventure and ease. “No more commuting!” I thought. “No more parking tickets or forgetting to water my plants!”
Solo travel can certainly be expensive. Booking a $150 hotel room might not be a big deal for families, but it adds up quickly for singletons. It can also be lonely and boring — but it doesn’t have to be. Spend on what matters, skip what doesn’t When thinking about how to save money on travel, many vacationers focus on the basics: finding travel deals and using travel rewards. Those are essential skills for solo travelers and my digital nomad motto was “follow the deals.” Yet there’s another way to save that’s particularly important for solo travel: not paying for stuff that doesn’t matter.
Find your thing As a bonafide sourpuss, it can be hard for me to make friends while traveling on my own. I’m not into most group tours, nor am I good at striking up conversations with strangers. So my early digital nomad career involved a lot of gazing wistfully into the distance.