This. I used to do solo trips to Las Vegas when the old Soldier of Fortune Magazine Conventions were running. Go to the Expo, shoot, take in a show and attempt to banquet. Just three or four nights, but it was fun. Did take my son once when he got older.

A married buddy of mine went solo every year to the Bug Bend. His wife had no desire to rough it for a week. Never seemed to hurt their marriage.

I've taken several vacations alone. I'm actually planning a trip to SE Asia and Japan now that I will take solo. Being able to do as I wish with no constraints from others is great if you are wired for it, I understand some aren't though.

Yep, I rather enjoy it. The vacation is yours, entirely yours.

I've taken along 5800 of my coworkers along with me ... does that count?

When I was a young 'un aboard USS Midway I'd go out with a couple three or five of my shipmates who already knew Hong Kong, Singapore, or Pattaya Beach Thailand. Getting to know the lay of the land with a group of six guys is safer than one alone. We'd bar hop together and made sure we all got 'home' safely. I quit drinking pretty early in my career after a "go-round" while trashed with an earthquake so I became a "designated driver", the guy who's still sober enough to convert dollars into Baht/Peso/Yen in his head.

I'd venture out alone lots after I'd been to places enough times to know the routes here and there. I'd go down to Northern Kurihama south of Tokyo by myself and watch the 800 year old temple awaken at 0430 AM ... the first handful of younger monks came out first stoking fires while the elders sat inside and enjoyed tea. I went into the software black market in Hong Kong and back and also around to the Stanley side for the street market there. In Singapore I toured Victoria Peak (very dangerous) alone and I rode a bus from Bangkok for 7 hours with chickens and pigs. I've had some near misses and got robbed once Sentosa Island near Hong Kong. I've also met and married one of the dozens of women I met and dated across those adventures.

At some point when the Navy went co-ed female sailors were going out alone and coming back beat-up and raped so the commander of the fleet put out a rule that you had to sign out with a "liberty buddy" together and come back together. At age 40-something I wasn't the only one who thought a grown Senior Chief didn't needed escorting so we'd meet up, come and go together and have fun. Sometimes we'd eat dinner together or share a long cab ride but we'd lie our asses off and wander around alone. I've also 'escorted' a couple of my sister Chiefs on shopping dates out in the Sooks of Saudi Arabia and Jebel Ali.

I enjoyed seeing the raw, unspoiled portions of the countries I visited. I wanted to meet and know about the people (mainly their young women!!!) and their cultures. At some point in time I figured I could get drunk any ole' time but how often can one spend a weekend in Perth, Tokyo, or Hong Kong?

I'd love to have the freedom I'd have now and be loose upon the world.

But 'me ball-n-chain barely chaffs at all after nie-on 37-years of marriage.

Since the wife passed and the daughter is off to college, I guess this is my future.

Kinda? I've gone to visit family (and taken leave to do so) without my wife and daughters, but I'm not sure that counts as "vacation".

I haven't gone on non-family-related trips without them, however, and I can't really think of a reason why I would.

I honestly think I spend more time doing hobbies/with friends than I do with my wife, because we have very dissimilar hobbies. I'm stuck in the late teens, early 20's "action and adventure" category and she's the "read books and water my garden four times a day" category.

There is undoubtedly zero chance she'd fly 2200 miles, drive four more hours, then walk 3-4 miles uphill in order to get this view:




or drive 20 minutes into the woods to dive this cave:




or go shoot a night match in the absolute pouring rain:




or fly 2200 miles, drive three hours, hike a half mile to the south rim of the Grand Canyon in 34 degree air (high temp), stand on the rim, then camp overnight with a low of 6 degrees:




or drive four hours to drag all this shit out to the Atlantic Ocean from a parking lot and scooter 3/4 of a mile offshore to visit a shipwreck:




... but she doesn't care if I go do it

My preferred way to vacation.

Wife won't ride the motorcycle with me so I'll take two or three day rides solo.  I'm on my way home from a three day ride.  Chillin at DQ about an hour from home.

I do all the time. Sometimes I'll meet a friend for part of a trip, but most of the time I'm solo.

Depending on your interests it's not a problem to be solo, and perhaps even better. At home I'd be alone other than my feline life partner anyway.

What is vacation?...

I go to Alaska occasionally by myself.
My wife likes Alaska, but she doesn't like wet, muddy bush Alaska.

Bad poll.  It's not either/or.  I've done/do both.

I've had a severe fly fishing addiction for the past few decades what have taken me all over the world, alone.  My wife has no interest in standing knee-deep in water all day, even if it's in Seychelles or the South Pacific.

There are fish, so I'm not really alone...

Never done it.  Never wanted to do it.  

If I didn't do things solo, I wouldn't be doing anything at all.

Solo travel is best travel. Then I met my wife.

She's very fluid and along for the adventure.

We never have an itinerary.

I go camping all the time alone.  Stress free trips.

After a month or two, I can really start to miss my dog, and will point the truck towards home.

I would not trust my self going on vacation alone with out the so

Backpacking. My girlfriend is 13" shorter than I am and doesn't like the idea. Good, I go often and can't imagine how much slower it would be. I can do small hikes with her, but not doing a week long one.

I’ve never traveled alone, but I did spend some time camping alone back in my 20s. I didn’t enjoy it as much as I thought I would.

I want somebody there to make memories with. My friends and I used to ride 4 wheelers in East Texas 2 or 3 times a year.  We had a blast on every trip, even if it was raining or cold. It just wouldn’t have been the same riding around in the piney woods alone.

I’m single and knocking on 40. There’s a lot of places here in the USA I’d love to visit, but unless I can find a lady friend to accompany me, I don’t know that I’ll see them.

I'm going to Cape Town South Africa in June on a solo trip. I'm not looking forward to the 15 hour, 55 minute flight from ATL to Cape town, but other than that it should be quite an experience.

I like solo travel sometimes, but the GF is cool too but she had a conflict with work.

The thought of going somewhere outside of the states by myself where it is about 72-75 degrees with no worries of waking up with both kidneys still intact after drinking all day with my toes stuck in the sand watching the waves lap onto the beach sounds…….well it sounds really damn nice.

Solo road trips are good, especially on a motorcycle.  From UT to Indy I would just fly though since after CO there is not much worth seeing unless you really just want some alone time, but there are better ways to do that closer to home.  I have been to a few MotoGP races solo, not weird or a problem in any way.

My solo vacations are generally to do hobbies, like motorcycling or shooting, always were enjoyable.  I haven't done a city sight seeing vacation alone, like going to Paris or whatever, but that kind of trip isn't what I'm into regardless of company.

I make sure I got some ho waiting for me wherever I go

LOL you're a fucking baby. You should be grabbing life by the ball unless you're one of those 39 year olds that looks 50+

No SO and my kids are grown, so any vacation will be solo for me. I just came back from a week in the UK, it was a blast.

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After having been married for all but a little over 2 years of the last 50, I've never vacationed alone.
But I think I'm about to take a few days away alone soon.  I do expect it to be a little strange, but I need some time away.

Double tap somehow.

Went on some whitetail hunts with outfitters as vacations alone. A couple of hunting buddies always said they wanted to go but when it came to actually opening their wallets they made excuses. I stopped asking them. When they found out I got an in to hunt at a place for free they wanted in. I said not a chance in hell.

Camping alone in Mexico and Belize.  You wouldn't believe how
confident it makes you.
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Spent a couple weeks in Athens in the 70's by myself.

Now days it's (usually) nice to have company.

I dearly enjoy spending vacation time with those i care for, but i also have that solo itch to scratch from time to time. Solo time outdoors. I don't hunt much anymore, but solo fishing, hiking, camping and exploring trips are a needed mind drain.

If I'm out on a fishing trip, there is nothing wresting my thoughts away from the task at hand. Especially if fishing from a kayak. I really love the simplicity of a kayak over my motor boat. Being the first ripples to disturb a lake at dawn is special. Same as letting a clear creek carry you downstream.

I would absolutely LOVE to do something like vacation by myself.

I have done it many times.

I enjoy it.

Did a short, solo motorcycle trip once.  Wife didn't want to go and said "go ahead, go by yourself".  I did.  After that she decided she wanted to go along on my MC trips.

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Reading all your responses, if you can swing it, I hope you do.

You know your family best, so if you can ensure the support needed, I do hope you make it. It's a cool roll, tho the ALCAN, like much in the world anymore, it's black, and has been for, hell, decades.  

Still, read up, do some homework, plan and I bet you have an awesome adventure.

If needed you can always fly home and back if emergencies. Might not be bad to break it up if 30 days seems too long and it makes sense financially.  If you do, make a thread, hopefully I'll catch it. Def sounds like you deserve it man. GL however it ends up.

Forrest, Vacation when you go somewhere... and you never come back.

I took a trip to Japan without the wife and kids. Daughter would have hated it and we couldn't leave her home alone. It was awesome, missed the fam thou,

I spent 3 weeks traveling solo around the British Isles, it was a blast. I did everything I wanted to do that time allowed, ate where I wanted, no compromising. I would say the only thing I missed was talking about the day’s events with someone at the end of the day. Other than that it was perfect.

Back in 93 I did the whole month of May at the track watching practices, qualifying, and the race.  It got to be too much but really a highlight of my life.  Luckily my brother lived near Indy (opposite corner from track) so it made it affordable.  There is a month long pass you can buy that gets you into garages as well, except parking and day of race.  Link to Pass   It is a medal which is cool in its own right.

I also have predominately travelled the world as a solo.  Asia, S. America, Europe and nearly every state in the US has been solo.   Don't have to worry about getting a consensus on where to go, what to eat, what to do from a group or partner.   I have started taking a friend k-12 plus college along, she gets me to do things out of my comfort zone a bit, it gets interesting.  We have very compatible tastes and interests so it is mostly low stress.  We just did Cairo and Luxor together.  Trade off days who gets to pick dinner.   She trusts me to pick the hotels and travel plans.

I'm in the process of going on a road trip alone on my motorcycle.
I dunno if it's a vacation....though...it's to see my nephew graduate from college and its important to him not only that I show up but HOW I got there.
The rest of the family are flying in.
I'll be riding hell for leather on the backroads on one of my Harleys through some pretty remote areas

I try to do 2-3 motorcycle camping trips a year.  The wife has no desire to ride on the motorcycle, so I usually meet up w/ friends a long the way.  Bucket list includes riding to Alaska.  That will be easier now that my son will be stationed near Fairbanks.  Eventually I'd love to ride from Prudhoe Bay to Ushuaia, Argentina - the wife has no desire to make that trip, either.  My wife wants to go to some Yoga retreat to get her advanced yoga certificate - I told her to go and have fun, it's 3 weeks.  I don't want to go.

HELL YES!! Some trips are best done alone, and don't let the guilt bother you. Not like you make a secret trip from them.

I took my wife on my Alaska trip last summer...I'm going alone again this year.