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  • Solo travelers get tour guide and photography lessons in Annapolis and Washington, DC

    "Learn to take great pictures while touring DC's favorite locations." What a cool concept for solo travelers from out of town. Lynford Morton of PhotoTour Excursions offers two, two, two events in one. (okay, only the older among us will remember that chewing gum commercial. Or was it mints?) Photo lessons and a tour of…

  • Posts on solo travel in Egypt win award from travel writers group

    We here at Boldly Go Solo (we being me) are just bursting with delight over learning that this very blog was awarded top honors by the Society of American Travel Writers' Atlantic Caribbean Chapter. On a related note, I just learned about a new book called Brag!: The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn without…

  • Free stuff in cities around the U.S.

    $500,000 in free stuff in 16 major cities around the country. I don't know much about this site called zozi but that's what they're giving away. Starting today. But not for long. It seems like it's another one of those discount sites that slashes prices so you will frequent a local business. I recently wrote…

  • The book and movie Eat, Pray, Love wouldn’t have been possible without solo travel

    You can't have the same experiences you get while traveling solo if you go as part of a pair. So says Elizabeth Gilbert, in a recent CNN travel piece on Eat, Pray, Love, the book she wrote that came out as a movie this past weekend. Anyone who has traveled solo knows this. Traveling solo…

  • Travel tip for getting deep discounts on food and drink and more

    Looking for discount travel? Have I got deals for you! Find discounts on food, drink and attractions in major American (and other) cities, discounts that can be steep indeed. Just remember these two words: Livingsocial and Groupon. Okay, those aren't really words. They're web sites. I've used them in Washington and I love them. And…

  • Louis Oosthuizen and I end up on the golf course during the very same month!

    I'm no Louis Oosthuizen and I don't even play him on TV. And I've never been anywhere near the British Open. But I did play a mean game of mini golf the other day, the kind that world champion miniature golfers might play in countries around the world. Tee Time Miniature Golf in Stone Harbor,…

  • Shakepeare’s Hamlet at Virginia theater festival

    Get thee to … no, no, no, not a nunnery. Get thee to the Blue Ridge Summer Theatre Festival 2010 in Amherst, Virginia, for a staging of Hamlet. Well, less a staging, than a "fielding." The show will be performed in front of an old dairy barn and you, the audience, will sit on a…

  • 10 travel tips for great adventures, come what may

    The following 10 tips come from the Trusted Adventures travel alliance,a group of nine travel companies. The travel tips are meant to help people have a rich travel experience, come what may. Unexpected events may include changes in plans, volcanic ash, oil spills and other "have-to-roll-with-the-punches" events that all travelers should be ready to face…

  • Any piano players out there with a yen for solo travel?

    Piano players! Come quick to New York City. As of today, 60 painted and decorated free public pianos are set up in 50 places throughout the Big Apple, from the Metropolitan Museum to the Coney Island boardwalk, according to a blog post with a great headline: "New York City plunks 50 free public pianos." Does…

  • High Museum of Art in Atlanta presents cool European design exhibit

    Worth visiting: The High Museum of Art's exhibit on European Design Since 1985: Shaping the New Century. In Atlanta. I was going to blog about the High Museum but my friend Diane beat me to it. So I'll just point the way to her post called "Way High Design at Atlanta's High Museum." She mentions…