Last week, I had the pleasure of going to the 1/2 Lounge (so named because it is located at 136 1/2 Church Street) in Burlington for the first time. I met friends there, but would feel pretty comfortable being there by myself, too. The 1/2 Lounge is a dimly-lit, cozy little space that you could [...]
Posts from ‘August, 2008’
More on the Closing of Star Trek: The Experience
It’s starting to sound like I’m completely obsessed with this, right? In today’s Las Vegas Review Journal, Doug Elfman writes about the closing of the Experience, and he really nails why people like me are obsessed with its closing and why we loved it so much to begin with (and it’s not just because we’re [...]
Get a Thicker Passport
This doesn’t have anything to do with solo travel, per se, just travel, but I wanted to share this lovely quote by Matt Damon from his interview in the most recent Conde Nast Traveler (“Matt Damon’s Good Work Hunting”): Damon believes in the power of travel to transform people. He wishes that Americans were less [...]
Dallas News article on “squeezing singles”
There’s a good article by Ellen Perlman in the 8/8/08 Dallas Morning News about fees charged to solo travelers. According to Perlman, the tide may be turning (though probably slower than we would like): “According to a report from Carnival UK, the trend for singles and one-parent families to go on a cruise will continue [...]
10 Money-Saving Tips for Solo Travel
Since solo travelers routinely take it on the chin when it comes to hotel and transportation costs (because we have no one to split the cost with) and are unable to utilize 2-for-1 deals, it pays to have some other strategies in your back pocket for saving money on travel. Here are 10 that I [...]
