Boldly Go Solo
How to set out solo, but not travel alone: Trips, tips and ideas for the active traveler.
Category: Travel
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The best time to go to a cat café is during feeding time. In case you were wondering. That’s when the cats burst to life. What, pray tell is a cat café, you ask? I’ll let my friend Bob tell the story. Bob recently returned from a two-week visit to Japan. This was his 10th…
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I scour millions of pages of the Internet every day so you solo travelers don't have to. Below are some finds on lessons learned, cheap tips traded and discussion boards discussed: Fodor's recently posted an entry on lessons learned from travel in 2009. One person learned from travel to third world countries how "very blessed…
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Lost a job but got a severance package? Now may be the time to travel. But your friends may still be working and unable to go with you. Your job is safe but your favorite travel companion has lost a job? He or she might be hoarding pennies and be unable to join you. In…
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I have to admit, this is the one time of year I'm thrilled not to be on the road. Or on the airplane. Or on the train. Many people use the holiday to travel somewhere but I always spend it with family (except the one year I was a student in England and I didn't…
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In my last post, my Japanophile friend Bob talked about some of his favorite places to visit in his favorite country. In this post, he talks more about traveling solo, why he loves Japan and the types of places he goes to eat and sleep when he visits. What so intrigues you about Japan? The…
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Anyone who knows my friend Bob knows how much he loves all things Japanese. He's been studying the language for years in Washington, with Japanese language partners and in classes. He's even learning how to write kanji, one of three Japanese alphabets. The most complicated one from what I can tell. Every time I turn…
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Because I couldn't bear the thought of staring at the four walls of my hotel room and eating a dreary dinner in a hotel restaurant, I pushed myself to stick with my original plan: Dinner at Garrido's. A casual Mexican restaurant somewhere in Austin. The result? An action-packed night filled with squeaky bats, soft tacos,…
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Feliz Dia de los Muertes. That is, happy Day of the Dead (hm, maybe "happy" isn't part of the greeting?) The holiday is celebrated in Mexico in connection with the Catholic holidays of All Saints' Day on November 1 and All Souls' Day on November 2. It wasn't until after I returned from Mexico that…
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I hadn't ever put my finger on this before, it struck me as I read this post: I prefer to travel solo in a foreign country than here in the United States. Why? The writer says that despite being fluent in the language and culture of her own country, it's more daunting traveling in the…
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A recently married women wrote a piece for CNN.com about what she'd do differently in life if she had a "single do-over." That is, if she could relive her single life. Number three: She'd travel more. She held off while she was single. She'd hear about her coupled friends' vacations and swear she'd do similar…
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