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Thinking about hitting the road and wondering about the benefits of solo RV living?<\/p>\n

You might imagine that RV life is for adventurous families with young kids or maybe retired couples. As a single person, you\u2019re drawn to the adventurous part, but you feel like the road life might not be for you if you don\u2019t have someone to do it with. We\u2019re here to say that couldn\u2019t be further from the truth. While there are plenty of positives to traveling with friends or family, don\u2019t discount solo RV travel. There are endless upsides to solo traveling that group travelers will never get to experience. If you\u2019re considering life alone on the road, you might just be convinced to give it a go after reading our list of the benefits of solo RV living<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Freedom to Choose All of Your Travel Details<\/h3>\n

Chances are at some point you\u2019ve tried to plan a trip with friends and you just couldn\u2019t find the right group of people who had the same budget and schedule availability as you did. Plans might have fallen apart, or you settled on a trip that was less than what you wanted in order to appease the group. When you\u2019re traveling alone, you don\u2019t have to worry about any of those things. You call all of the shots on where you\u2019re traveling to, how much money you\u2019re spending, and what you will do while you visit. If you want to go white water rafting, there\u2019s no one there to tell you they\u2019re not up for the adventure. If you want to stay in bed and read for the day, who will stop you? It\u2019s your schedule and your rules when you\u2019re traveling alone.<\/p>\n

Move at Your Own Pace<\/h3>\n

When you\u2019re traveling with others, each person brings their own expectation as to what the travel experience will be like. One of you might be a regimented Type A who thrives on planning out every detail and reaching destinations like marking items off of a to-do list. Another might be a Type B who would rather soak in a location and not feel rushed. No matter which type you are, when you live solo in an RV, you don\u2019t have to deal with the conflict that comes with meshing different travel styles. You can get to as many destinations as possible, or you can take your time at the ones you like more than others. However you travel best is how you get to travel.<\/p>\n

Have Space to Yourself<\/h3>\n

We talk all the time on our RV USA blog<\/a> about how to adjust to a smaller living space. But when you are traveling alone, it\u2019s far less of an adjustment. Sure, it\u2019s smaller than a sticks-and-bricks space, but you don\u2019t have to share it with anyone. Your bed is yours alone, and so is your kitchen. If you want to leave the bed unmade, you\u2019re free to do so. If you want to keep the kitchen immaculately clean, no one else is going to dirty it up. It feels far less cramped when you aren\u2019t sharing the space with a roommate and setting rules about housework.<\/p>\n

Get Outside Your Comfort Zone<\/h3>\n

While traveling alone<\/a> provides certain comforts of having space to yourself, it can also force you to get a little uncomfortable – in a good way. It\u2019s easy to hit a challenging trail or grill burgers at a campground with friends, but society makes us feel a little awkward about doing things that are usually considered social activities alone. Solo RVing will force you to get past that awkwardness quickly because you have no other choice. You\u2019ll find on the other side of your nervousness to have fun without a support system around you that there is a sense of freedom. A whole new world of opportunities opens up that people who don\u2019t adventure in the same way may never realize is there. As you continue to push your comfort zone, your confidence will increase. It\u2019s really a beautiful way to develop your own character.<\/p>\n

Reason to Meet New People<\/h3>\n

One of the ways you can step outside your comfort zone as a solo traveler is to make new friends. There are tons of things you can enjoy alone, but RVing has a way of connecting people and you never know when you\u2019ll meet someone who could be an adventure partner for a weekend or a lifelong friend. Camping alone can provide opportunities to strike up a conversation with neighboring campers that you wouldn\u2019t otherwise have if you were engrossed in the company of your own travel partners. We guarantee you\u2019ll come across some fascinating people along the way.<\/p>\n

More Authentic Travel Experiences<\/h3>\n

Because of all the things we\u2019ve listed so far, traveling alone opens you up to a much more authentic travel experience. You aren\u2019t playing by someone else\u2019s rules; You’re spending time just getting to know the destination. You don\u2019t have someone to keep you company, so you get to meet locals and learn about their stories and their favorite spots to visit. There is no agenda; you just get to immerse yourself in the local culture. You\u2019ll start to realize how many little things you might have missed if you hadn\u2019t been traveling alone.<\/p>\n

Learn to Enjoy Your Own Company<\/h3>\n

And finally, solo RV living teaches you to enjoy your own company. On long drives, nights cooking dinner alone in the rig, and mornings soaking in the beauty of nature around you, you often only have your own thoughts to keep you company. You\u2019ll get to know yourself quickly – the things you like and the things you don\u2019t, what makes you anxious, what excites you, the things you look forward to and the things you miss.<\/p>\n

Just like spending a long trip in an RV with a friend will force you to get to know them on a deeper level, the same can be said about traveling with yourself. The more you do it, the more you\u2019ll learn to embrace it. Enjoying your own company is a skill many people in our connection saturated world never learn – and we can\u2019t think of a better way to hone it than on the road.<\/p>\n

The Benefits of Solo RV Living<\/h2>\n

What are you waiting for? There\u2019s no better time to take the leap into solo RVing. We can assure you that you don\u2019t need a travel partner to reap the benefits of RV life. You\u2019ll learn so much about yourself and about the world around you that you\u2019ll wonder how you ever lived without it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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