1. Learn to like your traveling companion — That'll be you. Traveling alone brings you face to face with yourself -- your failings, your strengths and your selfie skills. Buda Mendes/Getty Images 2. Revel in your selfishness — Want to snooze in your hotel all day? No one will tell you otherwise. Score another one for solo travel. Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images 3. Lose the 'Helpless Rube' sign — It's even less advisable to gawk at a map on the street when traveling alone. Sneak into a doorway. JEFF PACHOUD/AFP/Getty Images 4. Be realistic about the dangers — Guess what -- you probably won't need these people on a solo trip. If you wander about alone where you live, it needn't be more scary when traveling. ALEXANDER KLEIN/AFP/GettyImages 5. Take yourself out to dinner — Feel in the spotlight eating that meal for one? Solo dining can actually make you savor your food all the more. Mark Mainz/Getty Images 6. Go easy on the social media — Save the best stories for when you get back home -- absorb what's going on around you instead. FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images 7. As for saving money, well ... — You can't split the cost of a room or a meal traveling solo, but the experience itself is priceless. Accept the bad, relish the good. Chris Jackson/Getty Images Prev Next
