Boldly Go Solo
How to set out solo, but not travel alone: Trips, tips and ideas for the active traveler.
Category: Fear, and some loathing
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After years of solo travel, I've learned that I like the freedom and serendipity that come along with having all my time to myself. But not everyone feels that way. A recent New York Times article describes various Web sites that help women business travelers meet up with other women in cities where they'll be…
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Boldlygosolo can also be found on twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/boldlygosolo, as you may already know from all my tweets from Egypt. I remind you of this in case you are into twitter and would like to follow information about vacations and travel via a twitter account. For those of you not that familiar with it (yet),…
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You get off a plane in San Jose, Costa Rica, and get picked up by someone who has been expecting your arrival. You are driven to Santa Ana, "the most beautiful little town," and meet the family you’re going to live with. The day classes start, you are driven up a mountain to go to…
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A solo cruise to Greece, Italy and Turkey changed April Lutz for all time. It wasn’t the amazing ruins of Ephesus, Turkey, the best preserved classical city of the Eastern Mediterranean. Or the visit to Izmir, Turkey, dating back to 3000 B.C. Or the stop in her favorite place, Santorini, Greece, with its brilliant white…
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People the world over have much in common. I was reminded of this after watching a video called Where the Hell is Matt? and thinking about the time I played peek-a-boo with a young Thai child. I was hiking in the hill tribe area. Foreigners are still a novelty there and people came out of…
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Most people don’t like eating alone at fancy restaurants. What they mean by alone is not having company at their table. How about being the only one in the whole restaurant? That’s what happened to me the other day. I got a same-day reservation at the Sooke Harbour House on Whiffen Spit Beach on Vancouver…
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Want to kayak where the kayak was invented? How about go dogsledding, snowmobiling or on a musk ox or whale safari? Then Kalaallit Nunaat is the place for you. Also known as Greenland. A place where you can view icebergs from a hotel terrace. A place where dog sleds have the right of way. Seriously. …
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If you love to travel and do it a lot, it should be as easy to get on a plane as venturing out for a quart of milk, right? Wrong. A few months ago, I wrote about the difficulty many travel writers have before every trip. They poured their hearts out on a thread on…
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So how did Sheara do, leaving her husband behind and traveling on her own in Barcelona for a couple of days?In case you’ve forgotten who Sheara is, she’s my friend from Massachusetts who I offered 10 1/2 tips to, back in early March. She wondered what to do in the evenings, alone in a big,…
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I was on the phone with a St. Louis travel agent for a story I’m researching, and our conversation turned to the mismatch between a traveler’s expectations and what happens once he or she arrives. Agent Stephanie (sounds like something out of "Get Smart") sent her daughter and a friend, both in their 20’s, on…
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