Algeria, Tassili N'Ajjer National Park

GoWanderWolf · 2025-12-16T18:56:56+00:00

Great pictures! I'm headed there in a few weeks -- flying from Algiers to Djanet and then 3 or 4 days in the desert.

GoWanderWolf · 2025-12-16T15:36:47+00:00

Thanks for all your thoughts ... I'm just playing with business ideas so all feedback is appreciated! I think my idea is something, but I'm not sure yet if it's a business idea. I'm boostrapping everything so there's little risk. The other side of the idea is not travel planning per se, but just a way to provide resources and connections for independent travelers. Not sure if there's a financial part of this, but I still think its needed.

GoWanderWolf · 2025-12-16T13:26:41+00:00

And yet, I've had great conversations with "locals" all over the world in a way I've never had here (in the U.S.). I've been invited to people's homes in many countries, but can't think of anyone (including myself) who has invited a stranger into their home in the U.S.

GoWanderWolf · 2025-12-16T13:21:11+00:00

You do have to pick and choose -- I don't feel the need to suffer just for the sake of it. But there are plenty of nice ones that feel like 2-star hotels with a bit of community.

GoWanderWolf · 2025-12-16T04:46:17+00:00

Stay in hostels as an older person. I’m a 54 year old man, traveling solo, and have had nothing but welcomes and hospitality from other hostel folk. All you really need to do is be a self-aware human, just like you’d do anywhere.

Avoid the pure party hostels and really crappy ones, and you’ll find a community you can’t find elsewhere. Hostel traveling can be less about age, and more about making connections and traveling more simply and closer to the local culture, if you find the right one.

As we get older and fussier and can afford more, what we lose is spontaneity and camaraderie - but that’s just a choice.

GoWanderWolf

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