Boldly Go Solo
How to set out solo, but not travel alone: Trips, tips and ideas for the active traveler.
Category: -United States
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http://widget-92.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf New York City is in a class of its own. And while it is someplace I like to go with others (I grew up just outside the city and often visited my grandmother, who lived on the Lower East Side), it’s the kind of place that will wrap itself around you even if you…
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"A soul cake, a soul cake" is the refrain that has been going through my head all day. It started when I visited the D.C. Holiday market where a banjo player sang the old British number, right after "Frosty the Snowman." Turns out it's a song sung on Halloween or All Saints' Day. But since…
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When I wrote about my youth hostel stay in Pennsylvania a couple of entries ago, I didn't mention the great shopping I did the day of arrival. If anyone lives within a couple of hours of New Hope, PA, and still has Christmas shopping to do, you'll just HAVE to go alone. You can't bring…
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"Houston's too humid," commented the Alec Baldwin character recently, on the show "30 Rock" created by Tina Fey, aka Sarah Palin, of Saturday Night Live. Houston, you've got a problem. When people think about the city at all, negative adjectives crop up. Oil and gas. Humidity. Or no image at all. I admit I…
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It being December, I'm reminded of a night I spent at a stone mansion in Quakertown, getting a taste of a Pennsylvania Christmas. Not having been to the manor born, this mansion experience provided a little taste of the high life. But actually, it was a youth hostel. I was researching a travel story for…
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Suppose you really, really wanted to travel to do something. Say, go to the Superbowl. Or the inauguration of the first black U.S. president. Or to the Olympics. Would you stay home because you had no one to go with? Yes, many people would. And do. But not a 76-year-old woman named Marlene who I…
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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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I had breakfast the other day with people from Lebanon, Israel, Belgium, Georgia (the American one, not the former Soviet state) and California. These guests at the Embassy Circle Guest House, a bed and breakfast on R Street, NW, in Washington, D.C., were engaged in a lively discussion about public education when I showed…
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These days, when I run into the tourism marketing people, I always say the same thing: "Nice destination, but is there a way for solo travelers to meet other travelers or local people while there? After a spell, we can get tired of traveling and touring on our own." The Greater Miami Convention & Visitors…
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Bora Bora in French Polynesia. Serengeti, Tanzania. Phi Phi Islands, Thailand. All destination favorites of the folks who book the tours at iExplore. Take it with a grain of salt, naturally. It's likely to be biased because it's put out by a company promoting tours to certain places. And yet…it IS a list of great…
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