I'm sitting here by myself at a restaurant and I have a bottle of wine open. All the servers are judging but I'm a single consultant on alt travel. Sigh 🍷🍷🍷

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Who cares. People have the most screwed up lives but love to judge others. Enjoy your meal and your wine.

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Who here thinks EY1 is just another horn dog looking for a vulnerable woman?

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And that matters why???

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Traveling as a single person solo is so enriching imho. You do what you want, meet new people, and learn so much about the world.

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You are setting a scene, use some adjectives

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And actually paint a picture, tell me a story - think of this like a good ppt deck

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I love it OP - all about the solo alt travel 👌🏼

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Story boarding is life OP, but yeah do you, let the haters hate

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Enjoy it. U won't always be able to have peace while drinking wine.

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Tell them you got stood up and score free drinks out of it 👌🏼

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@A1: doesn't sound like @OP is meeting anyone...

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I always prefer the bar when dining alone....also, don't assume people are judging you. Maybe they see a cute girl all alone and are wondering how could anyone so awesome be alone?

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Do it all the time

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Male or female?

Autocorrected to my friends last name Goh instead of you 😝 whooops thanks guys. Appreciate your kind words FB fam!

Male or female?

Obviously female but not really important

Why?

Op is female.. I know her :)

My guess is OP is a female.

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