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 second edition of "1,000 Places To See Before You Die" is out and I'm waiting to be assigned to do the "Solo Travel" edition. (Kidding! Sort of…) Do the math and you realize that even if you travel three times a year, you'll have to live to be 334 years old to actually see…
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Had enough Titanic stories yet? Can I sneak just one more itty bitty one past you? I was in Belfast a few years ago where I learned about the city's ship-building prowess and the fact that the RMS Titanic, and its sister ship the RMS Olympic, were built there for the White Star Line. The…
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I've been home from Israel for several weeks now and still haven't figured out what to write about it. Facts and figures about history and religion rained down on me during my 10-day visit. I was awed by sights that millions have visited before me. The religious and political aspects of life in Israel, and…
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This is the second year that fall has come around and my thoughts have turned to…Guadalajara. The foods, the family I lived with there for a few days and the Guadalajara sights. The San Juan de Dios Market. (I just recently finished the vanilla I brought home from there, which reminded me of my trip…
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I now throw out the idea of "singles" travel for those who might be interested in joining a tour composed solely of people traveling alone, who are presumably not married. I have not gone with the group Singles Travel Service, but I'm on the email list and they recently sent me a newsletter on some…
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For two weeks before Sawau tribesmen from the island of Beqa in Fiji perform a firewalking ceremony, they have no contact with women and don't eat coconut. If they mess with "the rules" their feet are liable to get badly burned during the ceremony. While in Fiji, I watched fire walking, not on Beqa, but…
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What I didn't know about Fiji. Until now: Cast Away, the movie "Cast Away" with Tom Hanks was filmed in Fiji. But not on Castaway Island. Nope, it was filmed on Monuriki Island in the Mamanucas, islands off the West coast of Viti Levu, Fiji's largest island. (Sometimes, it's just fun saying the names of these…
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Fiji is a very welcoming place. Everywhere we go we get big and loud "bula's" (BOO-lah), always singing and sometimes guitar and ukelele playing. Several times we've had "scary" warriors sporting face paint, spears and bracelets of grass or leaves on ankles, upper arms and wrists run out to greet us, screaming Fijian things we…
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Bula vinaka. Another hot, sunny day in store on the Coral Coast in Fiji. On the south coast of Viti Levu, Fiji's largest island. You know you're miles from home when front page news in the Fiji Sun is about the Kadavu Provincial Council in Tavuki and the news from all of North America is…
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The water bottle sitting on the table near me is labeled, “From the islands of Fiji, natural artesian water.” If I’m in the Fijian Islands, why am I drinking the water from a bottle, not the tap? The outdoor breakfast in the hotel lobby (Fiji is warm enough all year round to not need all…
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