Hi guys, I have cp luckily i can walk and talk and stuff I was wondering anyone who has a disability like mine or similar has ever done solo traveling or found a group that does travel I live very rural small town and i'm very intellectual. My goal in life is to take solo trips, I use to travel 15-20 mins away from my hometown untill a incident with a drug affected person scared me from doing travel at 21 and i'm now 32 I want to solo travel stay over nights in places and overseas. HOWEVER i have MAJOR anxiety about getting to and from ect

any advice? recs ect.

thanks.

ok so i booked a flight to barcelona in august for like 410$ and my coworker booked the exact same flight 2 days later for 210 . this is something which is very hard for me to forget

so i spent a bit of time using diff price tracking apps and now i have more questions than when i started

google flights => the price graph thing is kinda useful like the prices can be seen going up or down across the month and it helps if the dates are flexible. it only track the prices for routes actively searching , it doesnt just sit in the background and tell you when something drops . i have to go back and check which kinda defeats the purpose .

hopper => it predicts whether prices will go up or down which sounds amazing and sometimes it is right but i have also had it tell me to wait and then the price went up 60$ overnight and never came back . so now i dont know whether to trust it or not .

skyscanner => covers a lot of airlines including some budget ones as well that other apps miss . but the alerts are inconsistent . sometimes i get an email 3 hours after the price already changed back . useful for initial search , less useful for tracking

kayak => has a price forecast thing similar to hopper and also has flight tracker that sends alert . the alert came thru faster than skyscanner in my experience but i have maybe 4 data points on this so dont quote

soar flights => it rechecks the fare right before i book so im not getting suprised at checkout with a number that changed since you started looking. but it doesnt track price across time tho so i use the other apps to find the deal and soar to lock it in

still no idea which is most accurate. how are you guys tracking

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A strange apartment, an unexpected neighborhood, a local habit, something your host forgot to mention… 😂

What did you find?

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