Boldly Go Solo
How to set out solo, but not travel alone: Trips, tips and ideas for the active traveler.
Category: -Canada
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Tonging for oysters, making moonshine or painting watercolors may appeal to solo travelers in Canada
Four Canadian provinces are offering unusual and interesting activities that might draw goal-oriented solo travelers. You can "Live Like an Islander," on Prince Edward Island, learning to tong oysters, make moonshine (legally), be a lobsterman or try harness racing. There are dozens of island experiences such as these. Most, if not all, involve meeting up…
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Travel writers of the U.S. and Canada have come up with a list of the world's top 10 ferry rides, and you don't necessarily want to argue with people who travel for a living. (But of course you can, if you want.) Can't say I've ever seen a poll ranking ferries. But I like this…
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Enjoy a stroll down the narrowest "street" in Canada via the video below. It used to be a gambling district, filled with opium dens along with its shops and restaurants. I HAD to go alone. It was too narrow to walk side by side with anyone! Luckily, I was in Victoria on my own, exploring…
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Backroads, an active travel company, has come out with an idea whose time has come…but whose price is high: Short getaways. As in, three- and four-day trips. Biking in the San Juan Islands. Hiking and biking in Bryce and Zion national parks. Biking part of the Natchez Trace, a route from Natchez, Mississippi to Nashville,…
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I travel solo with the assumption I’m on my own. But often, companions appear from nowhere. On my last night in Victoria, B.C., I went searching for a new take-out fish place I’d read and heard about. It’s called Red Fish Blue Fish and it is down at the Broughton Street Pier. Couldn’t find it.…
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The title of a story in yesterday’s Calgary (Canada) Herald was, "Solo Travel Not So Lonely After All." The writer describes three separate trips: cooking in Sicily; hiking in Ireland and going to a spa on Vancouver Island. ALL of them appealed to me. Now I just need the time off work and the money…
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Talk about the Wild, Wild West. While traveling across rugged and mostly rural Canada, Al Stewart shot a bear. From a moving train! Just this year! Okay, so it was with his camera. And, maybe it wasn't exactly from a moving train but from a car in a park in Whistler. Standing still. Details, details.…
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When I think about seaweed…and no, I don’t think about it all that often…I think about that gross green stuff that wraps around your legs in the ocean. When "The Seaweed Lady" thinks about seaweed, she thinks about an ocean garden full of 700 species of a beautiful plant in varying colors. I traveled solo…
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Short tours can do wonders for alleviating loneliness when you're vacationing alone. If, after flying to your dream destination, you start to feel lonely, you can join a group activity for a day or two and have real live conversations. Something beyond, "Does this bus go to Sintra?" I recently went on an "urban foraging"…
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USTOA says you can save a lot of money on vacations by signing up for packaged tours instead of planning a trip on your own. Well, of course, they’d say that. Their members are the ones packaging those tours, and making money from them. The thing is, they’re right in a lot of cases. Particularly…
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