It all started unplanned.
I booked my first solo trip just after leaving my job. There was no big decision behind it and no long-term vision. I only knew one thing — I needed to travel alone. At that time, travel was not a career plan. It was simply a break I badly needed.
Back then, I never thought about starting a YouTube travel channel or becoming a travel vlogger. Content creation was not on my mind. I wasn’t confident, I wasn’t trained, and I wasn’t thinking about algorithms or subscribers.
One day, my husband casually said,
“You are so keen on travelling… why don’t you start making travel videos and upload them on YouTube?”
I remember asking him,
“Can I?”
Not because I needed permission, but because I wasn’t sure I was capable. I didn’t know how to speak on camera. I didn’t know video editing. I didn’t know what kind of travel videos people liked to watch. Honestly, I didn’t believe I was good at it.
I kept asking myself again and again:
Can I really do this?
But somehow, I started.
Without knowledge.
Without clarity.
Without a plan.
I recorded travel videos the same way I experienced places — raw, imperfect, and sometimes silent. I spoke when I felt like it and stayed quiet when I didn’t. I uploaded videos without really understanding how YouTube worked.
That first solo trip changed more than just my destination.
It changed how I looked at myself.
Travel slowly gave me confidence.
Solo travel taught me independence.
Spiritual journeys gave me grounding.
And travel storytelling — without realising it — gave me a voice.
This is how Travel Muse by Sangeeta began —
not as a strategy,
not as a brand,
but as a woman travelling, recording, and learning along the way.
This solo travel blog exists for people like me —
who don’t start with knowledge but with curiosity,
who don’t wait to be ready,
who take one step and then another.
I still don’t have all the answers.
But I have travel stories.
And roads to walk.
And that is enough to begin.
— Sangeeta Kumari Singh
