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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Smapping. That's what Mike Sowden calls it when you become your own cartographer/photographer: "Smapping is the process of taking a digital photograph of a map that you won’t have access to later, except if you take a snap of it." This is brilliant. I've done something similar by snapping signs and information boards when I…
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After years of solo travel, I've learned that I like the freedom and serendipity that come along with having all my time to myself. But not everyone feels that way. A recent New York Times article describes various Web sites that help women business travelers meet up with other women in cities where they'll be…
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Who better to tell you all about the things to do, places to go and food to eat than someone who lives in the town you're visiting? That's why I posted here about things to do in Washington, DC, that I know about from living here. And which travel guides don't often include. That's the…
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The steep mountain passes. The determination to make it up peak after peak in the Alps. The burning thighs. The peloton. The utter exhaustion. This can be you on vacation! If you think you have a bike race in you, or just the desire to hear the imaginary roar of the crowd as you cycle…
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A veteran traveler and award-winning travel writer and editor started as a solo traveler by accident
Jane Wooldridge, travel editor and writer for the Miami Herald, didn't plan her first solo trip. She was less than a week into a month-long backpacking adventure with a friend when he bailed on her. She stayed. In front of a hostel in Munich that had no beds for the night, she soon met four…
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One of the best tips a solo traveler can learn about photography is number nine on a list of 10 tips released by the Society of American Travel Writers Tuesday: "Put local people in your photos." SATW says to do it because it gives your photos a sense of size and scale. I say to…
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Hundreds of colorful balloons ascend into the sky in Albuquerque, New Mexico, during the annual autumn balloon fiesta, leaving visitors craning their necks, snapping photo after photo. Though Egypt was the first place I ascended in a balloon, as I wrote in my last post, it wasn't the first time I'd been nose-to-basket with one…
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The balloon lifted off the ground at dawn, the peaceful silence interrupted intermittently by a blast of noise and a wave of heat from the gas jets filling the huge tear drop above us. We were headed for the Valley of the Kings. We didn't get there. We had signed up for a balloon ride…
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It's not often that a whole region goes on sale but welcome to the recession economy. Businesses throughout the Mt. Washington Valley in New Hampshire are cutting their rates through the end of this month. For instance, the White Mountain Hotel and Resort is offering a third night during a mid-week stay for $20.09. As…
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