Anyone been backpacking solo?

[Ignis Fatuus]

Yes - Australia and NZ in my late 20s. I got a working visa for Australia so ended up spending the full year out there (3 months work in Sydney & the rest travelling) and then went over to NZ for 3 months. Only came home because there was a family wedding & I was told I would be disinherited if I didn't attend.

Went on my own, but stayed in hostels & met loads of people. Best year of my life!!

Looks like the question is not, has anyone travelled solo on a long trip far away. Question is, has anyone done that who doesn't now count it as one of the high points of their life?

[Troll]

Yes - Australia and NZ in my late 20s. I got a working visa for Australia so ended up spending the full year out there (3 months work in Sydney & the rest travelling) and then went over to NZ for 3 months. Only came home because there was a family wedding & I was told I would be disinherited if I didn't attend.

Went on my own, but stayed in hostels & met loads of people. Best year of my life!!

How hard did you find it to get work ?

[Bunk]

Only came home because there was a family wedding & I was told I would be disinherited if I didn't attend.

Exactly the same for me.

[Brussels Slumdog]

Life is One long working holiday

Left home in 71 and finally went home in 79. Backpacking and working. I am still on a working holiday except I now stay at the Radisson and not in a hostel and I catch a plane or a train and don't need to hitch hike to work. I now work on the 18th floor and not at the 18th level of an Australian gold mine. I no longer have to borrow £50 from a fellow backpacker to show the border guard that I have enough money to transit the country, as I can now flash my credit card. I now have a suitcase with wheels with 5 days of clothes and not a backpack with my whole wardrobe. I can now go home after the working holiday week. I now do the same IT job which is not quite as exciting as the 70s odd jobs