Solo female traveller Aleaya Duran (@aleayabella) has plenty of ideas for your bucket list if you also like travelling alone. But first, she has a word of warning about two popular backpacking ...

About one in four US adults said they ate all their meals alone the previous day, new analysis found. The 2025 World Happiness Report found solo dining spiked during the pandemic and remains elevated.

For a long time, I wore a mask. – Seemingly unfazed by life’s trials. Yet, beneath it all, I was a man alone in the world, too strong—or so I thought—to admit the reality of my isolation.