Taking off Are you sick of reading about other people’s New Year’s resolutions yet? Well, don’t worry, I don’t believe in resolutions. But I do believe in planning out my travel for the year in January, because otherwise, it wouldn’t happen. After all, I’ve got to get the time off from work, coordinate my vacation [...]

For the past 3 months, my friends and family, coworkers, people I know on Facebook and Twitter and total strangers on the street have been asking me “Where are you traveling this year, Gray?” and “What’s your next trip?” I’ve been playing it coy, building suspense, saying “it’s a secret.” Truth is, until last week, [...]

For those of you who don’t read my other blog, I’ve been in Las Vegas for the past week for the Christmas holiday.  I had a blast.  At this very moment, I was supposed to be home in Burlington, but my flight home last night was canceled, and now I’m stuck in Vegas for a [...]

Are you single?  What do you do for the holidays?  This has been a dilemma for me my entire adult life. I’d say 80% of the time, I’m pretty content being single, but there’s something about the holidays that just makes me feel like the odd woman out in a game of musical chairs.  Generally, [...]

Most of my time (and most tourists’ time) in Las Vegas is spent on the Strip or Downtown in the major casino-resorts, surrounded by pools and slot machines, attractions, and shows–a sort of fantasy land for adults.  All of which is great fun, but after umpteen trips to Vegas, I started wondering what else is [...]

I’m having a website party, a “coming out party” of sorts, and you’re invited.  Last fall, a seed of an idea germinated in my head that it might be a good idea to separate out my SoloFriendly Las Vegas content from my blog and house it on its own separate website.  I’ve been nipping away [...]

Do you like going out to hear live music when you travel?  I do.  I rarely go out for live music at home, because I have to get up pretty early for work and our local music venues tend to target a much younger demographic (it’s a college town). So going out to hear live [...]

Treasure Island has fast become one of my favorite hotels on the Las Vegas Strip.  The quality for price ratio is pretty high, in my opinion. The rooms are very nice, the casino has pretty much everything you’d want a casino to have including more than one video poker bar, the location is outstanding, and [...]