Boldly Go Solo
How to set out solo, but not travel alone: Trips, tips and ideas for the active traveler.
Category: –Skiing, Snowboarding
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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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Here's a fun read on solo travel from the Mail Online, a British Web site. The writer rounds up "the best" (that's subjective, though, isn't it?) "holidays for solo travellers." That is, the "best vacations for solo travelers" in American English (just taking the mickey, that is, kidding the British friend who gave me the…
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A Brazil cultural and multisport tour. A Napa Valley long weekend wine tour. A Montana camping trip. Skiing in Chile in July. These are some of the vacations offered by Singles Travel. I can't vouch for this particular tour operator. But I'm impressed with the variety of adventure trips they offer all over the world.…
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Want to kayak where the kayak was invented? How about go dogsledding, snowmobiling or on a musk ox or whale safari? Then Kalaallit Nunaat is the place for you. Also known as Greenland. A place where you can view icebergs from a hotel terrace. A place where dog sleds have the right of way. Seriously. …
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For me, love of travel includes daydreaming about where I might go next, and what I might do. At the moment, I’m in Park City, Utah with friends. We’ve skied Deer Valley Resort, Park City Mountain Resort and The Canyons. The snow has been awesome. (that’s ski-dude speak for "awesome"). So we’ve been having a…
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It was just one day, but I didn’t want to go skiing alone. But I was in Denver on my company’s dime and it seemed a shame not to take advantage of Colorado’s gorgeous snow and sunny skies. So I steeled myself, booked a rental car and headed off to Winter Park, an hour away…
Boldly Go Solo 