Boldly Go Solo
How to set out solo, but not travel alone: Trips, tips and ideas for the active traveler.
Category: –Singles
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Since I didn't start musing about what might make a good solo Valentine's Day trip until yesterday, these ideas obviously will have to hold until 2012 or beyond. Solo travelers seeking roses should book a flight to Ecuador, the rose capital of the world. One airline, I don't remember which, handed a large, perfect rose…
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If you're a solo traveler and ski fanatic, you might want to follow Gabriella Le Breton's winter adventure. Le Breton is the subject of a series of articles in Britain's The Telegraph, called "Single for the Season" about a single woman who is visiting 20 ski resorts this winter. In mid-January, Le Breton was in…
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The Chicago Tribune has a piece on how solo travelers can buy vacation packages without getting fleeced by the single supplement. I've written about these points before but they always bear repeating. If you're willing to share a room, many tour operators will match you with someone of the same sex, eliminating the single supplement.…
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On Saturday, at 5 pm, under a full moon, a group of us set out in the chilly night air for an eight-mile hike. Along a road called Beach Drive in Maryland. In the dark. We brought flashlights but never used them. Between the moon and our eyes adjusting we were able to see enough…
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It almost seems as if solo travel is becoming the vogue. The Los Angeles Times has a story on 10 vacations for solo travelers. It covers just about every option you can think of, from road trips to special-interest vacations to choosing villages over big cities. Another highly useful LA Times story suggests ways to…
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Norwegian Epic's solo cabins rated a major travel story in the Los Angeles Times today. The reporter went on a Caribbean cruise specifically to check out the solo sailing on a cruise line has taken notice of the solo traveler market. Norwegian Epic offers private rooms on a seven-day cruise for $1,271-$1,409. It would cost…
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Although my friend Elaine is skiing in Park City, Utah, alone, she's making friends right and left. Okay, they're friends for five minutes, but what's the difference? She's being entertained, being social and not feeling lonely. "I have five-minute relationships with people on the chair lift," she says. "Then it's, 'Have a nice life.' "…
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A 30-something woman has written a somewhat amusing, partly crass (hey, my blog, my opinions) piece on her cross country dating adventure. The country being Canada. It seems to be connected to a PR campaign by a singles dating site, which surveyed women about their solo travel experiences. The online dating site polled more than…
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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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Interesting story on single Americans. The percentage is up to 43 percent of the population versus 28 percent in 1969. Tell me again why tour companies focus mainly on couples and families? Particularly when "the average American will spend more of her adult life unmarried than married?"
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