Welcome back! You seem to like this blog. Why not share your favorite articles with your friends on Facebook and/or give it a Stumble? Thanks!Christopher Elliott’s travel column today discusses Four secrets for finding the right travel pro. It’s a good topic to raise, especially for solo travelers who have never traveled alone before. Do [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2008’
Top 10 Best Reasons to Travel Solo
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 a rut. Sometimes [...]
Finding the right travel companion
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 an [...]
Foreign Travel on a Budget – Getting Creative
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 stuff. None of them [...]
Explanations and Excuses for Solo Travel?
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 [...]
