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'll leave the details about the best ships for solo travel, to the folks at Suite101.com. I'm not a "cruiser," as people in the biz call travelers who board ships and sail off for vacation. But Suite101 provides here a list of companies that offer single cabins with no single supplement. They say the down…
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I landed on this chat about a traveler wanting to find a place to ski that offers rooms for one without a single supplement. The comments range from "Singles are losers to be exploited" to "unfortunately the economies of being a hotelier make it difficult to achieve what you want" to "I travel on my…
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A Brit has written a story in timesonline about avoiding the "heartache" of traveling alone. Oh please… Heartache? If you've chosen to travel alone, you didn't get into it to be miserable. Clearly you have some sense of adventure and a desire to see parts of the world that intrigue you. I personally would not…
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I want to share this amusing (to me) post about how you don't need to be someone with special skills or abilities to be able to travel by yourself and enjoy it. In "Confessions of a Solo Female Traveler," the writer says that she's scared, paranoid, a worrywart, introverted, unadventurous and neither rich nor physically…
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Until I saw this article on "10 Unique Transport Modes Around the World," I never thought to add up all the different ways I've traveled. We're not talking planes, trains and autos here. More like camels, elephants and tuk tuks. So I was amused to see what the writer had experienced and to learn that…
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Here's a round up of some good articles on solo travel: The Los Angeles Times offers travel advice to a 49-year-old man concerned about getting sick while traveling out of the country? Soothingly, "sudden death while traveling is not statistically likely." Well, I guess I can finally stop fretting about keeling over then. But just in case, you…
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I enjoyed this story from worldhum on introverted travelers. It showed me how the other half of solo travelers explore the world. The introverts, that is. Clearly without gabbing with a lot with strangers: "I am terrible at striking up conversations with strangers and I am happy exploring a strange city alone." The writer doesn't seek…
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Over the next several posts I will run some of the entries I received for the contest to win a foreign-language phrase book. I love the following story from B, who did not want his name used: "My parents lived in Indonesia for a year while my dad was advising a company there. They were…
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Just a few more days to enter the contest to win a funny phrasebook in Spanish, French or Italian. Surely you've got a story about mangling the language in a foreign country or not being able to get your message across? Click above to read more about the contest. Send your phrases and tales now…
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