Boldly Go Solo
How to set out solo, but not travel alone: Trips, tips and ideas for the active traveler.
Category: –Biking, Hiking
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While many people spent Easter Sunday at church, 14 of us spent it in nature's cathedral, hiking seven miles in Sky Meadows State Park, on the eastern side of the Blue Ridge Mountains. While the cherry blossoms are now past peak, the trees in Delaplane, Virginia, are just beginning to bud. Many people may not…
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My friend Diane and her husband Wessel recently visited Flagstaff Lake Hut, one of the huts that is part of Maine Huts & Trails. As a cross country skier, I was intrigued by her account of the two of them walking into the woods with all their cross country ski gear for a little winter…
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Backroads, an "active travel company," is ending its singles and solos trips next year. The owners found that more of their solo travelers ended up on regular trips than on solo ones. There weren't getting enough people to make the singles and solo trips fun. After doing some of Backroads solo trips years back, I…
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A few months ago, a service was launched that lets you rent a bike and accessories the same way you rent a car or book a flight. You pick a destination city, give the dates you're traveling and what type of bike you want, and the service attempts to find you available bikes in shops…
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I wake up but do not get out of bed. The Iron Girl triathlon was the day before. A .6 mile swim, 17 mile bike and 3.4 mile run. I finished. "To finish is to win," as JT, a fellow triathlon "girl" kept telling the eight of us doing it. I won. In that sense.But…
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Last weekend I did a 9-mile hike in the woods, along a creek for much of the way. I heard woodpeckers and the rustle of small four legged creatures scurrying away at the sound of footfalls. And the entire hike was in Washington, D.C. What a lot of people don't realize about the nation's capital…
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Travel + Leisure's July issue describes the "world's top biking cities" Three are in the U.S.: Minneapolis, Portland (Oregon) and Seattle. The others are Amsterdam (of course), Bogota (who knew?), Copenhagen, Montreal, Munich, Paris and Perth. The site offers a slide show of the various cities. There's a great photo of a four-story parking structure…
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Travel writers have come up with a list of their favorite train rides and it has set my mind to wandering. And daydreaming. About past and future trips. The only train ride they list that I've actually been on is the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad that chugs through Colorado's two-million-acre San Juan National…
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The steep mountain passes. The determination to make it up peak after peak in the Alps. The burning thighs. The peloton. The utter exhaustion. This can be you on vacation! If you think you have a bike race in you, or just the desire to hear the imaginary roar of the crowd as you cycle…
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A Brazil cultural and multisport tour. A Napa Valley long weekend wine tour. A Montana camping trip. Skiing in Chile in July. These are some of the vacations offered by Singles Travel. I can't vouch for this particular tour operator. But I'm impressed with the variety of adventure trips they offer all over the world.…
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