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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Tell me if this video of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) is as funny to you as it is to me? I saw the whole show yesterday in Lynchburg, Virginia, so I loved watching the backstage shenanigans of these three guys on video. I felt the personal connection. So, you know how usually…
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Being a good planner and well organized are not prerequisites for travel. They might help but having tendencies toward disorganization (I call it "not overly compulsive") and late-in-the-game planning ("spontaneous") shouldn't keep you home. I was reminded of this as I was leaving Atlanta for D.C. yesterday. I was sitting in a hotel restaurant downing…
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"Ideal for solo travelers," says the press release from Western River Expeditions about its rafting trips on the Colorado River through Cataract Canyon, Utah. I vouch for that statement. I had one of the best trips of my life floating on peaceful sections of the river and holding on for dear life through Class III…
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A few weeks ago I wrote about antiquing in New Oxford, Pennsylvania. Well, the story is out in The Washington Post today. It's called,"Welcome to Antiquing." Which is what my friend Paula said to me when I commented about a musty smell in one of the antiques malls we were in. And rather than…
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Love this piece on what might happen when a travel writer takes the podium. Happened to me just the other day. What he talks about. Someone looked at me as if the clouds just parted. Lit up and said, "You're a travel writer…" It's the beginning of a sentence I've begun to dread. Because what…
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If you're an antiques freak, I highly recommend a trip to New Oxford, Pennsylvania, to get your fill of Victorian, Civil-War era and other antique furnishings, toys and kitchenware. I don't see it as an ideal place to travel solo if you don't love antiques because it's not exactly a hoppin' town, but for a…
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Are you a fan of Disney World but think it's someplace you simply can't go alone? Why? Gray Cargill at SoloFriendly.com offers 10 reasons for traveling to Disney World alone. And loving it. For instance, how great is it to be able to slip into the Single Rider line and fill one-seat spots, bypassing the…
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While many people spent Easter Sunday at church, 14 of us spent it in nature's cathedral, hiking seven miles in Sky Meadows State Park, on the eastern side of the Blue Ridge Mountains. While the cherry blossoms are now past peak, the trees in Delaplane, Virginia, are just beginning to bud. Many people may not…
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The paths are lined with cherry trees. Whitish-pink petals rain down from the canopy of trees above like a Technicolor summer storm. Spring at the tidal basin in Washington, D.C.? No, spring a little farther north, in the Kenwood area of Maryland. Not quite a dirty little secret, but certainly not known by a lot…
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My friend Diane and her husband Wessel recently visited Flagstaff Lake Hut, one of the huts that is part of Maine Huts & Trails. As a cross country skier, I was intrigued by her account of the two of them walking into the woods with all their cross country ski gear for a little winter…
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