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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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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On a scrap of paper somewhere, I have a recipe for a caramelized onion salad. It came from Jesus, a Cuban guy who cooked the delicious appetizer for me in an Arizona restaurant. I was sitting alone in the mostly empty dining room. Phoenix in May is not a prime destination. It’s a rotisserie. But…
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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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<–Turtle sighting! I did not go solo on a 15-mile hike on Martha’s Vineyard on Saturday. Six of us set out on the annual cross-island walk. That turned into a whopping baker’s dozen during a mid-morning break. That’s because my friend Joan, whose house we were staying at for the weekend, knows about a zillion…
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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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I feel like I have hit every block of Victoria, British Columbia, in the past two days. In Chinatown, I visited the Gate of Harmonious Interest and Fan Tan Alley, Canada’s narrowest street, and former home to gambling joints and opium dens. First thing in the morning, I was at the First Nations (Native Americans)…
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The editors at Frommer’s recently chose seven places suited for solo travel, from Istanbul to Mexico to Texas. Great trips are to be found in many places they left out, obviously, but they state their case for each pick. So, here, forthwith, are the: 7 top spots for the solo traveler.
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I’m in the middle of booking a four-day weekend in Victoria, British Columbia. Now I remember why I like traveling with tour operators. What a hassle it is to make my own arrangements!I’m going to Seattle for my day job and decided it was a great excuse to do something else in the Northwest or…
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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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I landed the other day on the "largest collection of women-centered travel classifieds on the Internet." I know this only because the site told me so. A site called Journeywoman. I’d been meaning to write about Journeywoman for the longest time. It’s just that I find it difficult to describe exactly what it is. What…
Boldly Go Solo 