Portugal · Europe
Your First Solo Trip, and How to Enjoy the Awkward Parts
Solo travel is mostly a confidence problem rather than a logistics one. What helps, what doesn't, and the specific moments people find hard.
5 min read
Based in Lisbon, Portugal
Mara Okonjo
Founding Editor
Mara has spent eleven years writing about the places that never make the front of the brochure. She edits every Travelogger story, still files her own reporting from long overland trips, and believes the best travel writing sounds like a friend talking, not a brochure.
Slow travel
Overland routes
Food
2 stories by Mara Okonjo