Posts under ‘solo travel’

Anyone who says that to have a luxury hotel experience, you must sacrifice character, history, and culture hasn’t stayed at El Convento. This boutique luxury hotel, located on Calle Cristo in the heart of Old San Juan, is one of the city’s oldest structures.  Founded in 1651, it served as a convent for 250 years.  [...]

One of the things you will read about Puerto Rico before going there is that the pace is much slower than what many of us are used to, particularly here in New England.  We tend to be very time-bound, rushingrushingrushing from place to place, activity to activity, trying to squeeze as much in during the [...]

I take public transportation regularly at home and try to do so when I travel as well. It’s an inexpensive way to get around and get the lay of the land when you’re tired of walking. As a solo traveler, I also welcome the opportunity to interact with others, and that’s easier when using public [...]

I just finished a guest blog post over at Women on the Road, Leyla Giray’s excellent resource for solo women travelers (especially backpackers).  If you haven’t been to her site before, do check it out.  She has tons of information and advice from her many years of backpacking solo around the world.  My guest post [...]

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 [...]

Ever since I first read Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, I’ve thought a long train journey–the kind that takes several days, where you get your own sleeper compartment and mingle with intriguing strangers in a restaurant or observation car–would be  very romantic.  Sans the murder, of course. I tried train travel once, many [...]

Ah, the pull of the open road. . . Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel by RV across the continent, stopping for the night wherever and whenever the mood strikes?  I have known people who travel that way, and I find it fascinating.  They have the freedom and flexibility to [...]

In this week’s collection of recommended reads, we have solo travel articles that describe making friends on the road, overcoming our fears, and appreciating solo travel when it comes our way.  The round-up is capped off with an inspiring destination post on Paris. Enjoy!
Travel Solo for a Rocky Mountain High – People who have never [...]

Here at SoloFriendly, you generally get the point of view of one type of solo traveler (me). I’m a short-term traveler, a vacation traveler if you will. Tuesday, I introduced you to my friend Danielle Johnston, a radically different type of solo traveler, and noted some scary travel episodes she has experienced. If what had [...]

Imagine you are a U.S. citizen in Ghana doing volunteer work and you are awakened to screams and the pounding of running feet.  When you look outside, you see hundreds of men–your neighbors, people you’ve come to care about–running for the bush, running for their lives, as the women of the town scream for them [...]