Posts under ‘General Travel Tips’

My friend JoAnna Haugen of Kaleidoscopic Wandering has tagged me to participate in a travel blogger game to share my three best travel secrets.  This game was kicked off by Katie at TripBase.com as a way to unite the travel blogging community and create a list of our collective best travel tips.  The key is [...]

Anyone who flies knows there is always the possibility of a canceled flight that can leave you stranded in a strange city, and/or keep you from getting where you need to go, when you need to be there.  This is the kind of situation that causes people who are normally unflappable to have a complete [...]

Jane Engle wrote this article in the L.A. Times travel section recently offering five suggestions on ways solos can travel within a budget.  It’s all good advice, some of which I’ve covered here before.  Although, having taken a train once to Delaware, I can tell you if you want to “snooze in your seat”, I [...]

When I tell people that I travel alone, I often get one of two reactions:  “Wow, you are so brave!” or “Aren’t you lonely?”  I don’t consider myself especially brave, but if you want to, that’s cool with me.  I did worry about loneliness before I finally decided to just go by myself.  Now I [...]

If you’ve been hesitant to travel solo because of fear for your safety in a strange place, read on.
It’s perfectly normal to feel some anxiety when traveling to a new place, particularly alone. With solo travel, your best defense is to do your research ahead of time and know what you’re getting yourself into. [...]

There’s a very interesting interview in the 7/20/08 Newsweek with the CEO of Amtrak, Alex Kummant, talking about the expansion of rail service in the U.S. as a result of high oil prices. I have long been a proponent of expanding the rail infrastructure in this country and increasing rail service in high-traffic [...]

Finally, another free thing to do in Burlington, VT. From the University of Vermont’s press release:

UVM to Offer Weekly Historic Tour of Campus
Founded in 1791, the University of Vermont is the fifth oldest university in New England, after Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, and Brown.
Beginning next weekend, the university will bring its long and illustrious history [...]

Today’s meal of choice at the Chew Chew Festival was lunch. It was a muggy, overcast day. A bank of rainclouds blocked the view of the Adirondacks across Lake Champlain, so I knew rain was on the way. I decided not to waste a lot of time dilly-dallying. I got there, [...]

Well, guess who’s feeling pretty proud of herself right now? Yup. That’s right. Me. I was invited to take a walk on the other side of the fence recently and be a guest blogger for the Tip Diva on the topic of how to be a good host. I have [...]

“A single woman on vacation in Vegas. . .alone?”
“Yeah. Weird. We’re looking into it.”
(CSI Investigator Nick Stokes and Captain Jim Brass, CSI, “Play With Fire”)

The above exchange, when it first aired on TV in 2003, sparked quite a few outraged posts on some Las Vegas message boards I frequent. Mostly by women like me, some [...]