Boldly Go Solo
How to set out solo, but not travel alone: Trips, tips and ideas for the active traveler.
Category: -North America
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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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Recently, I sent out a request for people to send me their stories about going solo to a spa. A lot of folks who land on my site are searching for solo spa vacations. So I figure I should write about more of them. But since I’ve only been to two (here and here) destination…
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Sometime during my early 20’s, my adventurous father treated me to a trip on a windjammer cruise off the coast of Long Island, in New York. In those days, I wasn’t traveling on my own. But I could see how easy it would have been to sail alone on a small boat like that and…
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I thought I was well traveled because I’ve been to four continents. Then I heard about Lynn Stephenson, 81. She has visited 515 places. I say "places" because according to MostTraveledPeople.com, to have been everywhere in the world, you have to have visited 673 countries, territories, autonomous regions, enclaves, geographically separated island groups, and major…
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My friend Elaine was hesitant to admit that she was glad I didn’t join her on her recent trip out West. But no insult taken. I understood that it meant she’d had a fabulous time. She went out to Utah a few weeks ago without knowing a soul. All packed and ready for a biking…
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The backhand I have today is a gift from the Amherst Tennis Camp. For two summers, I spent a week at the camp, practicing my strokes. For hours each day. The housing is in college dorms, which makes the week inexpensive. And, it enhances the opportunities to get to know fellow campers. You walk back…
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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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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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