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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"Is London an extremely dangerous place to travel alone?" This was the question posed by a "young woman traveling alone" on a site called English Travel Deals. If you'd been in the room with me you might have seen my eyes roll. And a smile appear. What kind of question is that? If you go…
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"Cairo Time," a romantic drama on the big screen that takes viewers on an in-depth tour of Egypt's capital city, provided me with an evocative return visit to the "City of a Thousand Minarets." I recognized a set of stairs in a section of the Khan El-Khalili market downtown, a minaret (or is it just…
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Fellow travel writer Laura Byrne Paquet ended up in Amsterdam's Red Light District doing…well…not what you think. Paquet and her husband, tourists from Canada, had arranged a special meeting. No, not for what you think! They had arranged to have dinner with a local couple. A company called Like-a-Local arranges for visitors to have dinner…
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Could you travel the world with no luggage? We're talking none. No checked bag. No overhead bag. No backpack. No fanny pack. Not even a plastic grocery bag. None. Just a lot of pockets to stuff with necessary items and some soap for washing out clothes. This is the six-week travel challenge for Rolf Potts,…
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You can't have the same experiences you get while traveling solo if you go as part of a pair. So says Elizabeth Gilbert, in a recent CNN travel piece on Eat, Pray, Love, the book she wrote that came out as a movie this past weekend. Anyone who has traveled solo knows this. Traveling solo…
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A debate rages in the travel writer community about whether to take freebies when traveling or not. The writer of this Huffington Post blog post on travel writing says she takes them and doesn't have a problem with it. This is somewhat off topic for boldlygosolo but I'm interested to hear what you think. As…
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It almost seems as if solo travel is becoming the vogue. The Los Angeles Times has a story on 10 vacations for solo travelers. It covers just about every option you can think of, from road trips to special-interest vacations to choosing villages over big cities. Another highly useful LA Times story suggests ways to…
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This travel guide to Cartagena, Colombia entertained and intrigued me for two reasons: 1. I've thought many times about visiting Colombia, ever since traveling in Ecuador several years ago. But I've never seen a travel video of Colombia to know much about what it looks like. 2. After watching the Colombia travel guide for a…
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