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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The singer Nawal from the Comoros Islands played at the Kennedy Center last night. The hour-long performance was free. Nawal's music is described as "Indo-Arabian-Persian music meets Bantu polyphones, with syncopated rhythms and Sufi trance." Not your every day radio station fare, eh? Nawal was at the Kennedy Center as part of Arabesque, a festival…
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Siesta Beach on Siesta Key in Sarasota, Florida, has white powdery sand so fine, it's like flour. I was in Sarasota with two great friends, to celebrate our birthdays. One afternoon we watched the sun go down in the West, despite the fact Florida's on the East Coast. I forget that it's possible to see…
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Enjoy a stroll down the narrowest "street" in Canada via the video below. It used to be a gambling district, filled with opium dens along with its shops and restaurants. I HAD to go alone. It was too narrow to walk side by side with anyone! Luckily, I was in Victoria on my own, exploring…
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This city slicker played rodeo queen once. And it wasn't on Halloween. I was at the Kay El Bar Ranch in Wickenburg, Arizona, which is home to several horse ranches. I suited up with a neck hankerchief in the ranch's colors and tried my hand, and my horse, at barrel racing, pole bending and a…
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I heard on the radio the other morning that hotels in New York are offering terrific deals on rooms. One such deal was a rate reduction to $100 from $500. In that case, I won't complain about the fact that two people pay the same rate as one. Sorry I don't have more specifics about…
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http://widget-92.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf New York City is in a class of its own. And while it is someplace I like to go with others (I grew up just outside the city and often visited my grandmother, who lived on the Lower East Side), it’s the kind of place that will wrap itself around you even if you…
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When I wrote about my youth hostel stay in Pennsylvania a couple of entries ago, I didn't mention the great shopping I did the day of arrival. If anyone lives within a couple of hours of New Hope, PA, and still has Christmas shopping to do, you'll just HAVE to go alone. You can't bring…
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"Houston's too humid," commented the Alec Baldwin character recently, on the show "30 Rock" created by Tina Fey, aka Sarah Palin, of Saturday Night Live. Houston, you've got a problem. When people think about the city at all, negative adjectives crop up. Oil and gas. Humidity. Or no image at all. I admit I…
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It being December, I'm reminded of a night I spent at a stone mansion in Quakertown, getting a taste of a Pennsylvania Christmas. Not having been to the manor born, this mansion experience provided a little taste of the high life. But actually, it was a youth hostel. I was researching a travel story for…
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Suppose you really, really wanted to travel to do something. Say, go to the Superbowl. Or the inauguration of the first black U.S. president. Or to the Olympics. Would you stay home because you had no one to go with? Yes, many people would. And do. But not a 76-year-old woman named Marlene who I…
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