There seem to be more and more travelers these days who are eager to turn their backs on the famous tourist attractions in any city or region in favor of discovering new and previously-unknown places. These are the travelers who want “to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to [...]
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SoloFriendly Turns 4!
Four years ago, on February 18, 2008 I published my first blog post on SoloFriendly.com. It was pretty much a “welcome to SoloFriendly!” post, without a lot of meat to it. It wasn’t until my third post, One for Vegas that I started along the path to what I really wanted to do: Explore and [...]
My Travels From A to Z
I’m a sucker for travel memes, so when I was recently tagged by my friend JoAnna Haugen for a journey through my travels using letters of the alphabet as prompts, I jumped on it. Some of the questions are a bit challenging, and overall, I think I would have preferred choosing my own word or [...]
Passports with Purpose 2011
Books. Glorious books. They take us places when our circumstances cannot, at least in our minds. They inspire us, teach us, open new worlds to us, provide us with countless hours of entertainment. What would we do without them? When I imagine a world without books, without reading, without stories, the world I imagine is [...]
Vermont Solo Traveler Meetup: This is Why I’m Not an Event Planner
So. . .I know some of you may be wondering how the first Vermont Solo Traveler Meetup went. Not very well, I’m afraid. Even though I feel like I marketed the heck out of it online, only a handful of people registered. One contacted me earlier in the day saying she couldn’t make it because [...]
