Posts from ‘November, 2008’

Welcome to SoloFriendly.com, a blog for solo travelers! If you like what you see, I hope you’ll subscribe to my RSS feed and/or fan me on Facebook. Thanks for visiting!I don’t admit this to people on a regular basis, but one of my favorite places to go for walks is in cemeteries.  I know [...]

In honor of the spirit of Thanksgiving, I would like to share a list of things I am grateful for as a solo traveler:
1. The good health to be able to travel and be as active as I care to be. I tend to do a lot of walking wherever I go, and I know [...]

Every seasoned traveler has that small but indispensable list of items they pack for every trip, no matter their destination.  (Other than the obvious clothes, toiletries, IDs, cash, credit cards, etc.)  For instance, I wear glasses.  If they were to break, I’d be in big trouble, because I can’t see a thing without them. So [...]

This week, new runways debuted in Chicago, DC, and Seattle.  This is good news for all air travelers, since all it takes is a little backup at one airport (especially busy hubs Chicago and DC) to create a domino effect across the country, delaying flights and stranding travelers in airports overnight. Last year, I got [...]

There’s a new travel website in town, and it’s here to help you find hotel deals.  Read all about it in this press release.  Entrepreneurs Sam Shank (former CEO of TravelPost.com), David Hehman, and Howard Love just launched DealBase.com with over 10,000 hotel deals, including more than 275 Las Vegas hotel deals and more than [...]

With airfares and ad hoc baggage fees getting out of control in the airline industry, it might be time for you to consider making your next vacation a solo road trip (assuming there isn’t a pesky ocean in the way).  An old friend of mine did that many years ago.  He’d had a health scare [...]

One of the things I try to look for when I go on vacation are places where I am likely to run into as few children as possible.  All it takes is one child throwing a temper tantrum to drive away any sense of rest and relaxation I’ve earned on my vacation.  It reminds me [...]

Just a few pics to get you dreaming of a faraway, warm place….called Mexico.

Last night, I participated in AAA Travel’s “Biggest and Best Virtual Travel Show” at their website, where they were featuring vacation deals for the coming months from a number of travel partners.  I was really looking forward to this show, because I love AAA and their services, and I thought it sounded like a really [...]

If you haven’t read Blue Highways: A Journey into America by William Least Heat-Moon, the classic road trip book, you owe it to yourself to pick up a copy and do so.   It should be a “must read” for anyone interested in solo travel.
As with most great travelogues, this is not just an autobiographical [...]