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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Tonging for oysters, making moonshine or painting watercolors may appeal to solo travelers in Canada
Four Canadian provinces are offering unusual and interesting activities that might draw goal-oriented solo travelers. You can "Live Like an Islander," on Prince Edward Island, learning to tong oysters, make moonshine (legally), be a lobsterman or try harness racing. There are dozens of island experiences such as these. Most, if not all, involve meeting up…
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"US Now," a soon-to-be-released documentary film out of the United Kingdom, is all about the new ways people are working together and sharing their lives through the Internet. I was surprised and intrigued to see an extensive section about an American who tries couchsurfing. We follow our solo traveler as he finds his way to…
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The large majority of single-sex adventure trips are geared towards women, a fact that gets under the skin of some male readers. Recently, I've begun receiving e-mail info from a company that promotes adventure trips by breaking them into categories such as "deal of the week," "family adventures," "women only" and, interestingly, "men's interest." Not…
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Most people think of a cross-country journey as a road trip with friends, a once-in-a-lifetime rite of passage. But a D.C. writer has done it all by her lonesome. Twice. (Hm, since her dog was co-pilot, does that make it a buddy trip?) And it sounds as though she would consider doing it again. I…
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Like every city, Philadelphia has a range of activities for single, as well as partnered residents.Though they may be geared for locals, they are a good way for solo travelers to ease any isolation they may feel while visiting a big city. Philly also offers some excellent dining and drinking options for those on their…
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I just put the movie "Bloody Sunday" on my Netflix list. (Clearly, this is not going to be your typical St. Patrick's Day green-beer travel story.) The movie is a docu-drama about a massacre of unarmed civilian demonstrators in the Catholic Bogside district of Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1972. And, according to the review, "the…
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A story in today's Boston Globe gives great common sense tips and encouraging stories on the joys of solo travel and preparation for doing so safely. Funny enough, the writer, Kari Bodnarchuk, a great adventurer (and gear head) was on my recent travel writers' trip to Egypt. She writes: "What surprised me once I hit…
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Boldlygosolo can also be found on twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/boldlygosolo, as you may already know from all my tweets from Egypt. I remind you of this in case you are into twitter and would like to follow information about vacations and travel via a twitter account. For those of you not that familiar with it (yet),…
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Friends often seem just to appear when you're traveling solo, as I've written in many previous posts. But I enjoyed this amusing blog post on four ways to up the odds, written by Travel Betty. She describes those times when you just want to talk to someone instead of being on your own. An abbreviated…
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Do you find yourself suddenly divorced? Really, it's none of my business. But I got a press release that's so in-your-face brazen…funny…I have to share. After all, recent divorcés/divorcees will be solo for a while, right? Might even travel. Well, the Marmara Manhattan, a luxury hotel and residence has a Suddenly Splitsville package just for…
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