I've found it helpful to visit monasteries, if possible. When I lived in Oregon and still was Roman Catholic, I went to Mt. Angel Abbey on the coast (it's a beautiful drive up from Eugene, where I was living at the time), and since becoming Orthodox I have been blessed to visit the monastery of St. Shenouda the Archimandrite in upstate NY. Both are wonderful, contemplative places of prayer and peace, with truly graceful people in them who will welcome you to have a taste of the life of pure prayer that has nourished centuries upon centuries of our Christian fathers and mothers who were also alone (though from what I remember, both were built on the cenobitic model of St. Pachomius, so they were kind of 'alone-in-community'). As you've rightly surmised, you are never truly alone when you are in constant prayer to and communion with God.
Even if you cannot get to a monastery (and I know how that is, as I live in a city now too; I don't even know where the nearest monastery is, to be honest), it might help you to seek out a copy of your tradition's daily prayer book/Book of the Hours that will help you establish a structured daily prayer rule, if you don't already have one. I don't know where you might find the Roman Catholic version of that (though I know there is one, since I remember praying the hours on occasion with my fondly-remembered father of confession, Fr. Augustine), but just as an example,
here is the Coptic version of it, known as the Agpeya (from the Coptic word for 'hour',
ti-agp). Its contents and structure are inherited from the daily prayer rule that developed in the monasteries of Egypt by c. 5th century, so it is very well-established and actually very popular for lay Copts to use every day (friends of mine from church had multiple copies around their houses; I have two -- one 'standard' one and one abbreviated one meant for people to take with them during their school or work day, which only has a few of the hours in it instead of the whole daily cycle).
