Boldly Go Solo
How to set out solo, but not travel alone: Trips, tips and ideas for the active traveler.
Category: –Language Programs
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I reached out to the IMAC school in Guadalajara, Mexico, about taking Spanish lessons in the week before my travel writers conference begins in the city in early October. The classes are given weekly all year, starting on Mondays. But I'll only have four days since the conference starts Thursday night. No hay problema. Jaime,…
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I just signed up to go to Guadalajara, Mexico, in October for the annual conference of my travel writers' organization. Locals know Guadalajara as the "City of the Roses," or the "Pearl of the West." Birth place of mariachi and tequila. Year-round temperature of about 75 degrees. Suena estupendo! (sounds great) I've decided to go…
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Bora Bora in French Polynesia. Serengeti, Tanzania. Phi Phi Islands, Thailand. All destination favorites of the folks who book the tours at iExplore. Take it with a grain of salt, naturally. It's likely to be biased because it's put out by a company promoting tours to certain places. And yet…it IS a list of great…
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Whoa, slow down calendar. I’ve got vacation days piling up and no vacation planned. Meanwhile, I’m only allowed to carry over five days into next year. There is nothing worse, in my mind, than wasting vacation days by taking off and staying at home…not that I’ve ever done it. When it has come to planning…
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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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I wish it were me going to a wedding somewhere outside Budapest. Yeah, okay, that sounds strange. But I recently met Hayden, a Servas member who lets visitors from other countries stay at his house in Washington, D.C. The relationships he forms turn into wedding invitations and vacation stays in places that might not be…
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This solo travel concept seems alien to many people in the travel biz. That’s unfortunate. I recently sent out a query asking if anyone in the industry particularly catered to the solo traveler. I was thinking of such things as a break on the room charge, since only one person is paying the bill. Or…
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Friends sometimes ask how I come up with my vacation ideas. It's magic! Nah. Sometimes I'm inspired by one of the many press releases I get as a travel writer. I sense an immediate, "whoa, that's cool," reaction and I find a way to go. That's how I ended up in Barco de Avila, Spain,…
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Irene is going to be on her own in Rome for two days before going to Florence. For an Italian language course. (Hm, she didn’t happen to just finish reading "Eat, Pray, Love" by any chance? For the three of you who haven’t yet read that very popular book – among women, at least –…
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If I'm ever in Chile and need a place to stay, I am welcome to stay with Mauricio. He just emailed me the other day extending the invitation. That made me really happy. Even if I never go. I met Mauricio and his sister, Paola, in Spain last June. On a train ride from Madrid…
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