Boldly Go Solo
How to set out solo, but not travel alone: Trips, tips and ideas for the active traveler.
Category: Trip Tips
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"The Girlo Travel Survival Kit" is a 255-page volume of encouragement and advice for teens and young women with wanderlust. I didn’t know anything about the "girlosophy" books until I was sent a free copy of the latest one. I have to admit, I found the look of the book odd. It’s written in a…
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Imagine walking up to a hotel registration desk and being told that you will get a discount because you’re only one person in a double room. Ha! Yes, imagine it, because you won’t often experience it. But… In researching a travel story on single supplements for the Kansas City Star, I learned about places that…
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It’s easy to get Sacha Lodge, located in the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador. All you have to do is take a small plane from Quito, the capital, to a little airport in Coca. Then, you hop a boat for a two-hour trip down the Napo River, a tributary of the Amazon. Then you hike for…
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I was amused by a story, on a site called EcoTravelLogue, that jumped to this conclusion: Because 67 percent of those who booked an "ethical holiday" were women, it "revealed" that women "care more about the environment and social impact of their holiday decisions than men." Snort. The truth is closer to this: women book…
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I was on the phone with a St. Louis travel agent for a story I’m researching, and our conversation turned to the mismatch between a traveler’s expectations and what happens once he or she arrives. Agent Stephanie (sounds like something out of "Get Smart") sent her daughter and a friend, both in their 20’s, on…
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Maria was on her own, in "the cutest little pub I’d ever seen," when the bartender poured her a Guinness she hadn’t ordered. She was perplexed. Then the bartender told her it was from three Irish guys who noticed she was alone at the bar. She’d never had a drink sent her way by a…
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Solo travelers sometimes feel sorry for themselves. They look around and think everyone's luckier than they are. "Look at 'em. They're all paired up. Except for me. Waahhh." Hey, plant this idea in your head instead. I was at a formal work dinner, chatting with a nice businessman, telling him about my blog. Don't know…
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Friends sometimes ask how I come up with my vacation ideas. It's magic! Nah. Sometimes I'm inspired by one of the many press releases I get as a travel writer. I sense an immediate, "whoa, that's cool," reaction and I find a way to go. That's how I ended up in Barco de Avila, Spain,…
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So this guy, Casey Fenton, buys a ticket to Iceland, but he doesn’t know anyone there. He dreads the thought of staying in an impersonal hotel and playing tourist all weekend. So, he does what anyone…scratch that…no one else would think to do. He emails more than 1,500 Icelandic students in Reykjavik, the capital, asking…
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