Posts from ‘April, 2008’

If you’re interested in trying solo travel, but you’re not sure where to go, you might need a reason, a purpose, for your trip. And if you love food, what better reason than to attend a food festival! There are many taking place around the U.S., and as the blog Shlashfood notes, we are now [...]

If you’re a music lover and you don’t already live here, you might want to consider booking a trip to Burlington, VT this June for our Discover Jazz Festival. This is considered one of the top 10 music festivals in the world (The Music Festival Guide, Chicago Review Press, Inc.). It’s a beautiful time of [...]

Just saw this press release on an April teleseminar series for baby boomer women who are interested in planning travel for themselves. It is being sponsored by the National Association of Baby Boomer Women (NABBW) and starts today (kind of short notice, that). Here’s the schedule: About the “Girls Just Want to have Fun: Baby [...]

One night when I was in Miami for a business conference, staying in South Beach, I found myself with an evening to myself.  I walked down Ocean Drive, allowing all the restaurant hosts and hostesses to hawk their dinners and half-price drink specials at me, and finally arrived at a place that appealed: Oceans Ten. [...]

I often have a different budget each time I travel solo, so I’ve stayed at everything from budget hotels to luxury resorts. I usually visit cities, so I like to find a hotel in the center of things. I was recently thinking about how, as a female solo traveler, my lodging needs might be different [...]