A story on why you should consider it.

By Kasey Jul 3, 2025

Solo travel is extremely daunting, and I know why.

Since I moved to Ohio just under three years ago, I have been put in a position to open my agenda to travelling more. For some context, I am a social media manager for an automotive parts company & associated with a race team. So my single life has been perfect with the increased travelling, I have gotten to go to some pretty incredible places that I otherwise would not have been able to do over the last almost three years. 

So why is traveling alone such a daunting task, like it takes a lot of courage to just go do something alone. I know in my own case, it has to do my personal preferences to travel in a group – because when I grew up, I would always bring a friend along since I grew up as an only child! (fun fact about me)

Traveling in my youthful years, I ALWAYS had somebody with me. There is just a comfort in being able to rely on one familiar person that you know. Whether it’s a co-worker on a work trip, your family member, or even a buddy makes the trip incredibly more comfortable because you can rely on that other person to assist you if something happens. Which, is not true for solo travel. You don’t have that safety net. 

So, what have I learned as somebody who is a social butterfly & needs that extra personal connection? Well, if you wait around for the perfect opportunity you’ll never get anywhere. You’ll never go on that trip, you will constantly push what you really want to do to the side because of fear.

It’s not ideal, but it’s honest. So, what have I done to get over this? Well, I forget who said it & I am sure with a simple Google search I bet you’ll be able to find some serious tips about solo travel, but this is a blog about me lol. So, I found this quote, and essentially it reads as “Do it scared, do it mad, do it alone, do it happy, but do it.” It just kinda hits home like something my Dad would always tell me about job hunting. He’d say something like: “If you’re not happy, then leave” and honestly that couldn’t be more true than now.

So, seize the moment. Go on that trip, money comes & goes and you won’t always be able to do everything you dream of, so take the opportunities you do get to do, and run with them to the moon!

You see, because I started to do things alone I have started to grow as a person to some extent. I have been able to take incredible photos, see insane views, and meet new people. You see, when you go do things alone; you push yourself out of your comfort zone. Which in itself is nice, because when nobody knows you, there’s no judgement. You don’t owe anyone anything in the open world.

If it helps you take the leap, create a character & just play that character when you travel alone. Maybe you’re Jake from the Yukon with an oil tycoon and you’re traveling you’re great grand aunt, or maybe you’re Alyssa from TN with no family left. It doesn’t matter who you are, just go out and enjoy the trip & explore a new life & take the risk. 

Hopefully this encourages you to take that leap and maybe do something outside your comfort zone!

Check out the photos that I was able to get below, I hope that you are able to enjoy these photos through my eyes! Be sure to follow along on our Instagram pages! @celestial.cstl & @cstl.media 

Thanks for reading along this week! 

Update:

I couldn’t leave it like this, since I posted this article, I just couldn’t help but feel as if I took the easy way out. I am by no means a professional blogger, but man, what I wrote above definitely falls under me just venting some frustrations in life, I suppose. Maybe that makes this connection just a bit more personal, just maybe?

I feel that I didn’t finish what I really needed to say because I never said much of anything. Which happens when you have a thousand things constantly on your mind. Like, why I solo travel & what I have learned from it; if I have lol.

Solo travelling has an effect unlike any I have ever honestly experienced before in my life. There is this feeling of clarity, which again is just a feeling that sometimes can lead to getting actual clarity, while on the flip side of that is when the opposite happens. Which, in the end, is still technically clarity lol. Part of why this whole thing, this whole life thing, has been so weird lately is because, well, I don’t know what the point is. Now, I don’t mean in a bad way – but more so, I don’t know what the goal is right now in this moment. There is a trend going around currently where it goes: “Almost forgot this was the whole point,” and then it’s them doing their favorite activity. And for me, I forgot what the point is for me. Which is a real bummer.

So, because of all of this, in order to try to remedy how I was feeling, I started to push myself to solo travel and to explore what was around me. Tasking myself with taking more risks like going out of my way to message people, or to set up a photoshoot over two hours away, and so much other stuff. I just kind of came to the realization that if you wait for the right time to meet somebody, you’ll never truly meet that kind of woman anymore.

There is a new little story that I really appreciated that slightly opened my eyes. I wish I knew the author, but it sounds close to this: “Of course I can do it alone, I always do. I’ve managed to learn how to carry pain, groceries, solitude, memories, and many other emotions and feelings all at once. I have managed to finally untangle things that other people have no idea were so badly knotted. I am able to answer most of my questions, fight my doubts, be my personal cheerleader, however what I wish people would understand when they say: “You’re so strong” like it’s a gift I have always had and not something that I have worked tirelessly and built brick by boring brick when no one else showed up for me. But yes, I can do it alone. I just wish that I didn’t always have to do it so alone sometimes.” There’s just something about that quote. I feel like it’s helped me notice things I haven’t ever seen before.

Maybe those things were always there too, and I just never noticed them before, but now I do. There it is again, that feeling you get from solo travelling. It’s eye-opening. So do it, solo travel the world because one day you’re going to be really pissed at yourself for not taking the opportunities you had infront of you because you busy waiting for the perfect moment. All waiting does is create regret, so don’t fall for it. Open your eyes, and live your life how you want. Be encouraged, be inspired, be motivated, be scared – but just for the love of god, do it. You will never live a day of your life if you don’t seize the day. Allowing yourself to love something is accepting that one day, the inevitability of that thing breaking your heart into pieces. That’s the law of equivalent exchange.

So, I truly hope that this article helped you live a little & maybe get a bit closer look into my mind. Because again, this entire blog is just me living out a fantasy. Do it scared.

PSS: Please do enjoy these random pictures from a few journeys where I decided to do it alone.