Boldly Go Solo
How to set out solo, but not travel alone: Trips, tips and ideas for the active traveler.
Category: Travel in the news
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I headed off solo to the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on the Mall in Washington, DC, yesterday. The plan was to meet my niece downtown. Not to get stuck waiting, futilely, for a train I could squeeze onto to get downtown. Instead, our little platform at the Van Ness Metro station on the…
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Falconry, the "sport of kings," is actually the sport of hunting. Instead of using a gun, or a bow and arrow, hunters go into the wild with a raptor that catches small game. Rabbits. Squirrels. Other small, edible animals. In Hershey, Pennsylvania, you can do falconry, but without the bloodletting. Basically, you watch a demonstration…
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Bootsnall, a great travel site, recently published a post on 10 reasons to visit Iceland now. The photos are gorgeous and I agree with all their reasons. Except maybe #10. I'll get to that in a moment. I've been to Iceland twice (as I've written here before), once in the winter and once in…
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Today's thoughts on solo travel come from The Travel Belles and the Wise Bread website. The Travel Belles post on 7 solo travel lessons is filled with luscious photos of the Loire Valley in France that I've borrowed (with permission) to use here. I practically cry, wondering how I could get my photos to…
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We here at Boldly Go Solo (we being me) are just bursting with delight over learning that this very blog was awarded top honors by the Society of American Travel Writers' Atlantic Caribbean Chapter. On a related note, I just learned about a new book called Brag!: The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn without…
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Some solo travel is a tad more difficult than I’d care to do. For instance, a British ex-Army officer is in the midst of walking the length of the Amazon River in South America. That’s, um, 4,000 miles. As the crocodile swims. But longer, really, since the river widens in many places and Ed Stafford…
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"Cairo Time," a romantic drama on the big screen that takes viewers on an in-depth tour of Egypt's capital city, provided me with an evocative return visit to the "City of a Thousand Minarets." I recognized a set of stairs in a section of the Khan El-Khalili market downtown, a minaret (or is it just…
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Fellow travel writer Laura Byrne Paquet ended up in Amsterdam's Red Light District doing…well…not what you think. Paquet and her husband, tourists from Canada, had arranged a special meeting. No, not for what you think! They had arranged to have dinner with a local couple. A company called Like-a-Local arranges for visitors to have dinner…
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Could you travel the world with no luggage? We're talking none. No checked bag. No overhead bag. No backpack. No fanny pack. Not even a plastic grocery bag. None. Just a lot of pockets to stuff with necessary items and some soap for washing out clothes. This is the six-week travel challenge for Rolf Potts,…
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You can't have the same experiences you get while traveling solo if you go as part of a pair. So says Elizabeth Gilbert, in a recent CNN travel piece on Eat, Pray, Love, the book she wrote that came out as a movie this past weekend. Anyone who has traveled solo knows this. Traveling solo…
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