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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Seeing the flashes going off at the bottom of a Metro escalator the other day reminded me of two things: what a big tourist attraction my home town is and how hard it is to capture an escalator on "film." (At least for us amateurs.) The reason people try to capture our escalators for posterity…
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A few months ago, a service was launched that lets you rent a bike and accessories the same way you rent a car or book a flight. You pick a destination city, give the dates you're traveling and what type of bike you want, and the service attempts to find you available bikes in shops…
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I wake up but do not get out of bed. The Iron Girl triathlon was the day before. A .6 mile swim, 17 mile bike and 3.4 mile run. I finished. "To finish is to win," as JT, a fellow triathlon "girl" kept telling the eight of us doing it. I won. In that sense.But…
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There were only two surprises on the list of the top 10 cities for music chosen by members of the Society of American Travel Writers. When I saw the email about the survey I ran through my head the cities I knew would be on there: Austin, New Orleans, Nashville, Memphis. Several others didn't come…
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Raise your hand if you're a fan of "The Office." The American version. The one about the Dunder Mifflin company, whose Scranton, Pennsylvania, office is led by the sublime dunderhead, Michael Scott, played by actor Steve Carell. If you're a big fan, you can now take a peek around the gritty Scranton sights seen in…
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Oh no they didn't….arrggghhhh. The cover headline of today's Washington Post weekend section is…"Staycations." Where's the Alka Seltzer? (see story dissing staycations) On the bright side, the section lists some nice activities for solo travelers. How about a self-guided gallery crawl? The writer recommends Lou Reed: Romanticism,; a show of digital photos by the "former…
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The Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee, like most any place in the world, can be visited and enjoyed by solo travelers. But you will be mingling with a whole bunch of families, kids, extended families, retired couples, conventioneers and people just generally wild about country music. If you fit into any of those categories, or…
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Last weekend I did a 9-mile hike in the woods, along a creek for much of the way. I heard woodpeckers and the rustle of small four legged creatures scurrying away at the sound of footfalls. And the entire hike was in Washington, D.C. What a lot of people don't realize about the nation's capital…
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Travel writers have come up with a list of their favorite train rides and it has set my mind to wandering. And daydreaming. About past and future trips. The only train ride they list that I've actually been on is the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad that chugs through Colorado's two-million-acre San Juan National…
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On a perch some 45 feet away from where I stand, Thunder awaits my call. "Hey, Thunder." At that, the Harris's hawk swoops in to land on my gloved hand. He's not there to socialize. The tasty bits of raw mouse and quail squeezed between my thumb and forefinger are the enticement for the visit.…
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