BackPackTrack

Making friends while traveling solo can feel scary at first, but it honestly gets way easier once you know where to look. In this episode, I talk about some of the best apps to meet people while trave...

20 Huhti 13min

Making friends while traveling sounds exciting, and it is!!Solo travel can bring some of the best connections, the funniest memories, and those random moments with people you met one day ago but someh...

13 Huhti 11min

At 28, I realized life is basically a video game 🎮You get a random spawn point, stats you did not choose, unexpected side quests, and a lot of grinding. But travel showed me something huge 🌍 if you ...

6 Huhti 21min

When people ask me hey Mel when is the best season to come to Japan I can't really answer this right away. The only thing I can say is....don't come during summer unless you love sweating. There are a...

31 Maalis 10min

Moving abroad sounds exciting, romantic, and like the start of a whole new life. But the reality is also loneliness, confusion, identity crisis, and realizing that solo travel and actually building a ...

24 Maalis 24min

This is the first time I’ve ever recorded a podcast episode with someone else, and honestly, it was such a fun experience. In this co-hosted episode with Hekaya Haven, we talk about how I first got in...

16 Maalis 1h 3min

In this episode I share 5 things I do now that old me would never have done, and why solo travel is not scary because you might get lost, but because you change. Going places alone, talking to strange...

9 Maalis 9min

When people think about solo travel, they assume the scary part is getting lost, missing flights, eating alone, or not finding friends. I thought that too. But the truth hit me after I came home. The ...

2 Maalis 12min