Boldly Go Solo
How to set out solo, but not travel alone: Trips, tips and ideas for the active traveler.
Category: -Thailand
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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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My friend and former work colleague "P," used to rush from work some evenings to make it to her tai chi class. She found it to be a relaxing respite from work tasks and household duties. When she and her husband booked a trip to Vietnam this past December, she decided she was going to…
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Today's post is brought to you by "The Bathroom Diaries." This is one down-to-earth Web site on the essentials of waste, and the receptacles that receive it. Fun, funny and highly useful if you're the type that plans in advance. And you really, really want a clean and comfortable place to go. Its contributors have…
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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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Bora Bora in French Polynesia. Serengeti, Tanzania. Phi Phi Islands, Thailand. All destination favorites of the folks who book the tours at iExplore. Take it with a grain of salt, naturally. It's likely to be biased because it's put out by a company promoting tours to certain places. And yet…it IS a list of great…
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National Geographic came out with a book last year called "Journeys of a Lifetime, 500 of the World’s Greatest Trips." The entry called "Thailand Cuisine Tour" was written by yours truly.Taking a Thai cooking class or going on a culinary tour would be a good way for a solo traveler to go to Thailand alone…
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The editors at Frommer’s recently chose seven places suited for solo travel, from Istanbul to Mexico to Texas. Great trips are to be found in many places they left out, obviously, but they state their case for each pick. So, here, forthwith, are the: 7 top spots for the solo traveler.
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If you love to travel and do it a lot, it should be as easy to get on a plane as venturing out for a quart of milk, right? Wrong. A few months ago, I wrote about the difficulty many travel writers have before every trip. They poured their hearts out on a thread on…
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I may be sooo 20th century, but sometimes I prefer to pick up a magazine instead of heading for the Internet for trip ideas. I’m looking, as we speak, at a section I ripped out of my National Geographic Adventure from November 2007. It’s called Best Outfitters on Earth. When you don’t exactly know where…
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I was on the phone with a St. Louis travel agent for a story I’m researching, and our conversation turned to the mismatch between a traveler’s expectations and what happens once he or she arrives. Agent Stephanie (sounds like something out of "Get Smart") sent her daughter and a friend, both in their 20’s, on…
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