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'm guessing that much of my blogging this week will be via Twitter, now located at the top right hand side of this page. I didn't bring a computer to Guadalajara because I was told there would be computers I can use at my Spanish language school, IMAC, and at the hotel where I will…
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Uh, that solo traveler would be me. I've given myself the challenge of sparing my bags from the hands of the airport suitcase tossers who frequently have routed my precious belongings to cities I have no intention of setting foot in. Not nice. I bought my 21-inch bag last night. I'm leaving Sunday at 6…
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Backroads, an "active travel company," is ending its singles and solos trips next year. The owners found that more of their solo travelers ended up on regular trips than on solo ones. There weren't getting enough people to make the singles and solo trips fun. After doing some of Backroads solo trips years back, I…
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I biked to the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., early this morning so I could see the swimmers in the Nation's Triathlon. Having just done a (shorter) triathlon, I was curious to see how racers would get into the water and where the course was. What a crazy scene. 4,700 participants. Waves of swimmers starting…
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Hosteling sure has changed since the days I was bumming my way around Europe. I carried a ratty little book listing where the hostels were and counted on outdated information that was printed probably once a year at most. You'd have to write letters to make reservations at a hostel, or just show up and…
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Seeing the flashes going off at the bottom of a Metro escalator the other day reminded me of two things: what a big tourist attraction my home town is and how hard it is to capture an escalator on "film." (At least for us amateurs.) The reason people try to capture our escalators for posterity…
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A few months ago, a service was launched that lets you rent a bike and accessories the same way you rent a car or book a flight. You pick a destination city, give the dates you're traveling and what type of bike you want, and the service attempts to find you available bikes in shops…
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I wake up but do not get out of bed. The Iron Girl triathlon was the day before. A .6 mile swim, 17 mile bike and 3.4 mile run. I finished. "To finish is to win," as JT, a fellow triathlon "girl" kept telling the eight of us doing it. I won. In that sense.But…
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There were only two surprises on the list of the top 10 cities for music chosen by members of the Society of American Travel Writers. When I saw the email about the survey I ran through my head the cities I knew would be on there: Austin, New Orleans, Nashville, Memphis. Several others didn't come…
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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,…
Boldly Go Solo 