Solo travel: Details and defense

I’m watching videos on travel, not just the Camino and tourism in Porto. Videos on new enforcement of carry on rules and safety and pick pockets.

I used to count on a waist pack to tuck in my important and easily to-hand items, but now you have to shove that into your personal item so you have 1 and only one item for under the seat. Garumph!

Then when you arrive and are trying to work out the train system, in a foreign language and foreign money and barely coherent from next to no sleep, dehydration, and traveling back in time, or is it forward in time, whatever, you have to be super aware of skilled pick pockets, distractions, all of your bags and phones and items. And getting on the right color car, getting off at the right stop and juggling your map app to guess how to navigate crowded, potentially risky streets to your destination. And the checkin time won’t be for another 4 or 5 sleepless hours, well into the wee early hours of your body’s confused clock.

Doing it alone. Yeah. Brilliant. I’ll call on Pilgrim Angels to support me. What else can I do!Read more