Speaker 1: I'm at the point, Julie, honestly, where if I do
Speaker 1: not solo travel, it's like being emotionally constipated.
Speaker 2: I'm Julie Binetro. I've traveled by myself for fifteen years
Speaker 2: and it never looks like it does in the movies.
Speaker 3: Movies like Under the Tuscan Sun.
Speaker 2: It's like woman in.
Speaker 3: Her forties traveling, being powerful, saying yes to life, being
Speaker 3: in charge.
Speaker 2: She's wearing linen, she's eating, she's praying, she's your due.
Speaker 3: Lingo is not going to come back to you when
Speaker 3: a man is inside of you?
Speaker 4: Oh no?
Speaker 3: And I'm like, you're like.
Speaker 2: On Solita, we're sharing the real stories of solo travel,
Speaker 2: the risky, the beautiful, the messy moments where the world
Speaker 2: is not your oyster.
Speaker 1: There is this stereotype of like, why is that woman
Speaker 1: by herself? Like is she okay? What happened?
Speaker 2: In Spanish solita is what we call a female alone.
Speaker 2: It's spoken softly with pity, as if there's something wrong
Speaker 2: with her. But what if we reclaim solita? What if
Speaker 2: our solitude is actually a tool of possibility.
Speaker 4: Every time I tried to be alone, I kept meeting
Speaker 4: people and they were like, you smiled at us. Not
Speaker 4: a lot of people smile around here.
Speaker 2: I've found that when you travel alone, you're more receptive
Speaker 2: to the world as it is and not the lies
Speaker 2: you're told about it. And it might be the first
Speaker 2: time in your life where you say yes without having
Speaker 2: to ask anyone else first. I can wait four hours
Speaker 2: for the next bus, or this random dude is offering
Speaker 2: me a ride on his motorcycle, I chose up. Sh
Speaker 2: be it can be a time where you push your limits,
Speaker 2: change your mind, or wake up to a new version
Speaker 2: of yourself. I'm training for a twenty thousand kilometer run
Speaker 2: across the length of Asia and Europe.
Speaker 1: In Colombia, there is no one image of a Colombian
Speaker 1: that really gave me permission to begin to start saying
Speaker 1: proudly I am a Columbian immigrant.
Speaker 4: I've gone to places like my Korea. I've spent time
Speaker 4: in Libya, and I can't really fathom them by watching
Speaker 4: the news, and I just want to know how the
Speaker 4: people live.
Speaker 2: So, whether you're a solo travel veteran or you're too
Speaker 2: nervous to book your first trip, I hope this podcast
Speaker 2: gets you a little closer to the plunge A.
Speaker 4: Few bad things have happened, but like a thousand amazing
Speaker 4: things have happened. If you jump, the net will appear.
Speaker 4: What kind of net and what's within the net with you?
Speaker 4: You won't know.
Speaker 2: Listen to Solita starting August eleventh on the iHeartRadio app,
Speaker 2: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.