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 top 10 tips for saving money when traveling… You may be scratching your head and saying, "Didn't she just post yesterday about the 12 ways to find travel bargains?" Yes, she did. But "she" wasn't impressed by the article she linked to. Then my travel writing friend, Diane (check out her nice blog), reminded…
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An article on travel deals on Sunday offered a list of 12 ways to find travel bargains. I didn't think they were anything to write home about. Suggestions included checking cruise discounters, consulting a travel agent and checking individual airline sites. This is news? But I liked suggestion number 9. "Work backward." "Instead of trying…
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I could have taken a snow day yesterday. As many of you throughout the U.S. know, we had a pretty good snowfall along the East Coast. How fun it would have been to ditch work, brew some hot chocolate and sit by a roaring fire. (Oops. I don't have a fireplace.) But that's not the…
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"Friends tell me I'm brave to travel solo. C'mon, now. Neil Armstrong was brave. Ulysses S. Grant was brave. The guy who invented bungee jumping and decided to be the first off the bridge was brave. Me? I just like to travel." That's what I wrote on the very first post on this blog back…
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http://widget-05.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf The Pyramids at Giza, the Sphinx and the Nile are generally what come to mind when people imagine Egypt. Fewer people know much about the temples at Abydos, Dendara, Edfu and Kom Ombo, to name a few of the ancient sites. Egypt seems a relatively safe place to visit solo – due to high…
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For solo travelers, twitter.com can be a beautiful thing. Many people who hesitate to travel alone complain that they have no one to share the experience with. I found that downloading random thoughts about my travels in Egypt was hugely satisfying as a sharing technique. I sent off mini-blog posts just about anywhere I was.…
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Enjoy a stroll down the narrowest "street" in Canada via the video below. It used to be a gambling district, filled with opium dens along with its shops and restaurants. I HAD to go alone. It was too narrow to walk side by side with anyone! Luckily, I was in Victoria on my own, exploring…
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A cruise line is heading to the Arctic, with a "limited-time offer" of a two-for-one package deal until February 15th. These deals never cease to irk me. Which I'm sure they wouldn't if I were part of a couple that wanted to travel to the Arctic together. It would sound like a great deal. Fine,…
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http://widget-92.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf New York City is in a class of its own. And while it is someplace I like to go with others (I grew up just outside the city and often visited my grandmother, who lived on the Lower East Side), it’s the kind of place that will wrap itself around you even if you…
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I'm a working stiff who has a few weeks vacation a year. So I choose the easy road to solo travel. I go on active adventure tours that organizers have planned for me. I usually wander on my own for a few days before or after, trying to pack in as much walking, museum going…
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