Posts under ‘Safety’

Happy Heart Day, everyone!  I’m really thrilled with this week’s crop of recommended reads, as they represent such variety of topic and writing style. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.
Forests to Burn – Do you love the great outdoors?  Do you dream of traveling the US, visiting the most remote areas [...]

In early December, as I was reading everything I could find on the Internet about New Orleans, I found a mixed bag of message board posts, some of which claimed the French Quarter is more dangerous than ever, and others the exact opposite.  I also ran across some comments referencing how poorly lit some streets [...]

This news is about three weeks old now, but I haven’t had time to post it before now.  The headline definitely caught my attention, but this time, instead of being outraged, all I could do was laugh hysterically.  I mean, at this point, what else can we do?  The airline industry has become the Circus [...]

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. [...]

“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 [...]