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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A story in today's Boston Globe gives great common sense tips and encouraging stories on the joys of solo travel and preparation for doing so safely. Funny enough, the writer, Kari Bodnarchuk, a great adventurer (and gear head) was on my recent travel writers' trip to Egypt. She writes: "What surprised me once I hit…
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Boldlygosolo can also be found on twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/boldlygosolo, as you may already know from all my tweets from Egypt. I remind you of this in case you are into twitter and would like to follow information about vacations and travel via a twitter account. For those of you not that familiar with it (yet),…
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Friends often seem just to appear when you're traveling solo, as I've written in many previous posts. But I enjoyed this amusing blog post on four ways to up the odds, written by Travel Betty. She describes those times when you just want to talk to someone instead of being on your own. An abbreviated…
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The dollar surges again, finally, against other countries' currencies. Now, the question is, do you still have a job and some travel money to burn? A lot of people are hunkering down but here's the good news, according to Arthur Frommer: In some cases, the dollar has risen up to 50 percent against other currencies,…
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The top 10 tips for saving money when traveling… You may be scratching your head and saying, "Didn't she just post yesterday about the 12 ways to find travel bargains?" Yes, she did. But "she" wasn't impressed by the article she linked to. Then my travel writing friend, Diane (check out her nice blog), reminded…
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An article on travel deals on Sunday offered a list of 12 ways to find travel bargains. I didn't think they were anything to write home about. Suggestions included checking cruise discounters, consulting a travel agent and checking individual airline sites. This is news? But I liked suggestion number 9. "Work backward." "Instead of trying…
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http://widget-05.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf The Pyramids at Giza, the Sphinx and the Nile are generally what come to mind when people imagine Egypt. Fewer people know much about the temples at Abydos, Dendara, Edfu and Kom Ombo, to name a few of the ancient sites. Egypt seems a relatively safe place to visit solo – due to high…
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For solo travelers, twitter.com can be a beautiful thing. Many people who hesitate to travel alone complain that they have no one to share the experience with. I found that downloading random thoughts about my travels in Egypt was hugely satisfying as a sharing technique. I sent off mini-blog posts just about anywhere I was.…
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If I could pay a dollar a night for a hotel room, I wouldn't complain about the fact that as a solo traveler I have to pay the dollar, while a couple only pays fifty cents per person. You know what I'm saying? (What am I on about, you ask?) Starting today, January 26, and…
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'Tis the season of the holiday markets, known in Europe as Christmas markets. They can be found in cities all over the world. I was just in New York City for Thanksgiving with family and stopped off at the Grand Central Terminal Holiday Fair for a quick peek before catching a train upstate. This is…
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