Christopher Elliott’s travel column today discusses Four secrets for finding the right travel pro. It’s a good topic to raise, especially for solos who have never traveled alone before. Do you have a travel agent book your trip for you, or do you do it yourself online? For the most part, I [...]

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10. You can be totally selfish and do whatever you want, without having to compromise with someone else, for the entire trip.
9. You can be whoever you want to be on the road. I’m not talking about aliases, here. I mean that in our everyday lives, we tend to get in [...]

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Okay, despite all the websites and books that tout solo travel as a wonderful way to see the world, let’s say you’re not quite ready to travel alone yet. You want to get your feet wet just traveling at all, but alas, you’re single or married to a homebody and you just don’t have [...]

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Want to travel somewhere exotic, but don’t have the budget for it? 5 offbeat paths to foreign travel deals by Erin Peterson offers concrete suggestions for getting there in creative ways. Peterson explores five ways to get there for less: Agritourism, Volunteer Travel, Home Swaps, Hospitality Networks, and Ambassador programs. Interesting [...]

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I recently read two articles online that were so amusing to me, I had to share them.
In Venice calls — and to hell with explanations, author Wendyl Nissen writes “And then there were the looks. From people searching for signs of a marriage break-up, a terminal illness prompting me to get out my list [...]

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I wanted to share this article from ShermansTravel.com for a couple of reasons.
1) I LOVE the word “solocations”. I plan to look for every opportunity to use it in daily conversation. (I’m easily amused.)
2) I am thrilled to see these kinds of discounted vacations for solos FINALLY becoming more abundant (abundant [...]

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“A single woman on vacation in Vegas. . .alone?”
“Yeah. Weird. We’re looking into it.”
(CSI Investigator Nick Stokes and Captain Jim Brass, CSI, “Play With Fire”)

The above exchange, when it first aired on TV in 2003, sparked quite a few outraged posts on some Las Vegas message boards I frequent. Mostly by women like me, some [...]

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I think this could be travel love. The New York Times just featured an article (”A Website Tries to Redefine Value“) about a new travel website called Insidetrip.com that goes above and beyond just comparing prices when you’re researching airfares.
Like other airfare comparison sites, you type in your airport information, dates and preferred times [...]

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