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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The New York Times' Frugal Traveler recently wrote about the costs of traveling with two different sets of people. A couple of high school friends. And his parents. During separate trips in Colombia and Nicaragua. He thought traveling with his friends would be cheap, while having to provide his parents with creature comforts would take…
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A debate rages in the travel writer community about whether to take freebies when traveling or not. The writer of this Huffington Post blog post on travel writing says she takes them and doesn't have a problem with it. This is somewhat off topic for boldlygosolo but I'm interested to hear what you think. As…
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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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It was during a hitchhiking trip from the Netherlands to Norway that I learned that Denmark celebrates an American Fourth of July. Well, in its own Danish way. And has done since 1912. In fact, it's the largest Fourth of July celebration outside of the United States. The celebration is held in Rebild Bakker, a…
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Get thee to … no, no, no, not a nunnery. Get thee to the Blue Ridge Summer Theatre Festival 2010 in Amherst, Virginia, for a staging of Hamlet. Well, less a staging, than a "fielding." The show will be performed in front of an old dairy barn and you, the audience, will sit on a…
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Rick Steves, well-known travel guru, has written a piece on the pleasures of solo travel in Europe and you should read it if you remain dubious about solo travel. I have written many similar posts over the years. This time, I point you to the travel master, in case his words carry more credence. He…
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I don't usually write about travel contests. There are whole blogs about them, such as my friend Barbara's blog, Travel Sweeps. Not sure why this one caught my eye. Maybe because it came to my inbox, instead of appearing while I was cruising the Internet. Or maybe I need a vacation. Or perhaps it's because…
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A few weeks ago I wrote about antiquing in New Oxford, Pennsylvania. Well, the story is out in The Washington Post today. It's called,"Welcome to Antiquing." Which is what my friend Paula said to me when I commented about a musty smell in one of the antiques malls we were in. And rather than…
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