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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I travel solo with the assumption I’m on my own. But often, companions appear from nowhere. On my last night in Victoria, B.C., I went searching for a new take-out fish place I’d read and heard about. It’s called Red Fish Blue Fish and it is down at the Broughton Street Pier. Couldn’t find it.…
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Sports fan? It’s the perfect entree for a solo traveler. Perhaps you play a sport. Perhaps you’re a big fan of a sport. Either way, it’s something you have in common with a large group of people in other countries. Sports bring travelers and locals together in several ways, according to a post in…
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A solo cruise to Greece, Italy and Turkey changed April Lutz for all time. It wasn’t the amazing ruins of Ephesus, Turkey, the best preserved classical city of the Eastern Mediterranean. Or the visit to Izmir, Turkey, dating back to 3000 B.C. Or the stop in her favorite place, Santorini, Greece, with its brilliant white…
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Fodor’s recently offered 10 reasons for traveling solo. Actually…no they didn’t. They listed 10 tips for traveling with your significant other. Which I read as, "Good thing I don’t have to deal with those things right now." Though I have when traveling with significant others. "Bettyk" says she used to stress out because she was…
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I’m standing high on a mountain in California on a hot summer day, my hiking boots planted at the top edge of a large patch of snow. One of the last remaining from the winter. I take in the scenery. The snow-kissed Sierra Nevada Mountains. The stoic evergreen trees. A verdant mountain meadow below. Then,…
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"Boy, did you ever hit a sore spot with me." That was the comment from a woman named Martha Miller who was responding to my story on single supplements, published recently in the Dallas Morning News. (and also here, if that link's expired) Her anger is directed at the tour operators I wrote about. It's…
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I wish it were me going to a wedding somewhere outside Budapest. Yeah, okay, that sounds strange. But I recently met Hayden, a Servas member who lets visitors from other countries stay at his house in Washington, D.C. The relationships he forms turn into wedding invitations and vacation stays in places that might not be…
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No matter how many times they are told about the benefits of solo travel some people simply are not going to set out alone. For them, I offer the Web sites below. These sites promise to find solo vacationers a travel partner. In alphabetical order: CuteTravelMate.com promises to find you friends, singles or travel companions…
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Riding horses across the Masai Mara, a large reserve park in Southwestern Kenya, is something I’d love to do. Paying $5,675 plus $875 for the single supplement is something I really don’t want to do. And won’t. In this case, even if I were spared the single supplement, I wouldn’t shell out close to $6,000…
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You don’t often get to barter labor for lodgings. Those "I Love Lucy" episodes where you have to wash dishes if you don’t have enough money to pay for dinner? Seldom happens. But at the historic Chalfonte Hotel in Cape May, New Jersey, you really can stay free. And get your meals free. In exchange…
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