Welcome

Not many professions offer so much time off as the teaching profession offers. This book shows you how to travel Asia on a teacher’s salary and how to do this traveling solo during those free summers between school years.

Not only will you see how inexpensive traveling in Asia can be, as I have revealed prices throughout the book, you’ll also see how much fun it can be traveling solo and meeting the local people.

You’ll see day-by-day recordings in my journal of the local people I met along with meeting some independent travelers like me, doing the same thing, traveling solo. After returning from a summer’s travel, I frequently would be asked “Don’t you feel lonely traveling solo? How can that be any fun?” That’s why I’m sharing my daily journal, so you can read about every day’s adventures and you can see how much fun traveling solo is, because you are free to enjoy the people you meet.

Frequently, it’s the young people who may initiate the conversation, as they will see that you are not a local person, and that you are probably a native speaker of English. Visiting with you gives them a chance to practice speaking and understanding English. Those encounters are fun for the solo traveler and they are fun for the students as well.

The book is full of these daily adventures and you may well be tempted to travel solo yourself and you might even choose to travel that way year-after-year, as I have done.