Boldly Go Solo
How to set out solo, but not travel alone: Trips, tips and ideas for the active traveler.
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They say that if you walk late at night, up Hog Alley, a short, steep street in Harpers Ferry, W.Va., you might see a tall black man, dressed like a gentleman from the 1800s, pacing up and down. If you get close enough, he slowly lifts his head to show piercing blue eyes. But…
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So this is how I found myself living luxuriously, swimming laps in a pool facing the mountains in rural Spain, alongside a new friend from Australia. I've been studying Spanish for about five years now and love to practice any chance I get. In a somewhat confused moment, I decided to go to…
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For two weeks before Sawau tribesmen from the island of Beqa in Fiji perform a firewalking ceremony, they have no contact with women and don't eat coconut. If they mess with "the rules" their feet are liable to get badly burned during the ceremony. While in Fiji, I watched fire walking, not on Beqa, but the…
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You have friends, right? And they have friends? And relatives, too? Well, what are you waiting for? TAP THEM. You don't have to know them well, or even at all. They just have to live someplace you want to go. That's how I decided I could go to Ecuador without a travel companion. The thought…
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"Upscale" and "hostel" don't usually land together in a sentence so I was thrilled to read the story in today's Washington Post about the "new breed" of hostels opening in this country. They are "very high-end, clean, design-focused," according to the owner of a hostel soon to open in Pittsburgh. The story describes the Firehouse…
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“So you travel . . . only?” asked the woman sitting next to me in halting, but intuitive English, as we sat in the packed compartment on a train speeding through Moroccan farmland. We were the sole unveiled, accompanied women in the car. I enjoyed this story about solo travel in Morocco, a place…
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Ice, ice everywhere and not a drop, or cube, is random. It's all been pared, whittled and sliced by talented ice carvers into, well, it depends on which story you read. A Russian web site explains that the exhibit is inspired by the "best patterns of Russian national culture," from the Ice House of Anna…
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It's hard to leave good friends you've made while traveling. People who haven't experienced solo travel don't realize how tight the bonds can be when you click with someone abroad, or on the road. How can you walk away from someone you've so enjoyed being with, knowing you might never see him or her again?…
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