Boldly Go Solo
How to set out solo, but not travel alone: Trips, tips and ideas for the active traveler.
Category: Travelers on solo travel
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Time for me to start harmonica lessons. Right quick. A travel writer acquaintance of mine wrote this lovely story about how playing the harmonica during her travels in China, Turkey and elsewhere, quickly broke the ice with children she met along the way. Brilliant! Why haven't I ever thought of this? People often advise travelers…
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In a third-hand account of spa-going, I offer you the results from this year's list of best spas, based on a reader poll done by Conde Nast. I tried going directly to the Conde Nast site, but they offered their results with that annoying web trick of forcing you to click here, there and everywhere…
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Visiting a new place? Ride a bus to the end of the line and soak up the sights while coming and going. Get off the bus if you see something or some place that strikes you. Maybe get back on and go to the end of the line after that. Or maybe not. I love…
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Bootsnall, a great travel site, recently published a post on 10 reasons to visit Iceland now. The photos are gorgeous and I agree with all their reasons. Except maybe #10. I'll get to that in a moment. I've been to Iceland twice (as I've written here before), once in the winter and once in…
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Today's thoughts on solo travel come from The Travel Belles and the Wise Bread website. The Travel Belles post on 7 solo travel lessons is filled with luscious photos of the Loire Valley in France that I've borrowed (with permission) to use here. I practically cry, wondering how I could get my photos to…
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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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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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The New York Times' Frugal Traveler recently wrote about the costs of traveling with two different sets of people. A couple of high school friends. And his parents. During separate trips in Colombia and Nicaragua. He thought traveling with his friends would be cheap, while having to provide his parents with creature comforts would take…
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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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