Boldly Go Solo
How to set out solo, but not travel alone: Trips, tips and ideas for the active traveler.
Category: -Washington, DC
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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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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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Andrew Fu set out from California with the idea of visiting every state over a period of months. Since then, the 25-year-old has driven a tractor and shoveled manure in Kansas. Hung out with a fisherman in Florida. And helped break a record in Georgia for making the most pancakes in eight hours. Most recently he was…
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Who better to tell you all about the things to do, places to go and food to eat than someone who lives in the town you're visiting? That's why I posted here about things to do in Washington, DC, that I know about from living here. And which travel guides don't often include. That's the…
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The singer Nawal from the Comoros Islands played at the Kennedy Center last night. The hour-long performance was free. Nawal's music is described as "Indo-Arabian-Persian music meets Bantu polyphones, with syncopated rhythms and Sufi trance." Not your every day radio station fare, eh? Nawal was at the Kennedy Center as part of Arabesque, a festival…
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Want to take a walk in President Obama's shoes? That's the story I wrote for the Philadelphia Inquirer. It appeared in Sunday's travel section. I walked the 1.2 mile route alone, taking note of what all the buildings were on each side, and scooting to the top of the Old Post Office Pavilion to take…
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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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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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