How to Meet People & Make New Friends When You Travel

My husband and I travel the USA 100% of the time. We don’t own a home. We live out of extended stay hotels. We move to a new place every 3–9 weeks usually, giving us enough time to dive into a new city and learn it like a local before moving on. We’re temporary residents, full-time travelers, and digital nomads all at once. (If you’re wondering why in the world we’re doing this, you can read that here.)

While traveling and seeing so many places is exciting, it also makes it hard to build relationships with people. By the time we’ve gotten to know people somewhat well, we’re packing up and moving again. And if we wait too long to start meeting people, we don’t have enough time to really get to know them.

However, this isn’t an excuse to retreat into ourselves and decide that our relationship with each other is enough. That isn’t healthy. We each need to have our own friendships. We need people we can get together with in person.

We love traveling together and spending time together, but we each need our own friendships too.

We’ve found that when we connect with people in this way, we have much fonder memories of that place when we leave…