Solo Safety

What’s the Big Deal About Solo Female Travel?

February 9, 2013
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When the news was reported last week about the murder of Sarai Sierra, a young mother from New York who was traveling on vacation alone in Turkey, I immediately felt sadness for her and the family who lost her. What a tragic outcome for what should have been the trip of a lifetime. My second [...]

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Does the SlingSafe 200 Really Thwart Pickpockets?

August 3, 2011

If you start researching a trip to Spain, one security issue will become glaringly apparent: There are a lot of incidents of pickpocketing in the country. Everyone and their brother will warn you about it, and they’ll all have a personal story about how it happened to them. . .and how fiendishly clever the pickpockets [...]

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Ditching Freaks or How to Get Out of Awkward Encounters When Traveling Solo

February 22, 2011

One of the ironies of solo travel is how much easier it can be to meet people because you’re solo, instead of traveling with your significant other or a posse. But if the upside of solo travel is that you’re approachable, then the downside of solo travel is that you’re. . .  approachable. That’s right:  [...]

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Travel Takeaways from My NYC Trip

June 29, 2010

I have to apologize.  My regular posting schedule of Tuesday, Friday, Sunday is going to be screwed up this week.  This will be my only post until next Tuesday or Friday.  The reason for this is two back-to-back trips with intense schedules.  I am just back from the travel blogging conference in New York City, [...]

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Perspectives on Long-Term Solo Female Travel

June 15, 2010

Today, I’m delighted to bring you an article by guest blogger Jodi Ettenberg of Legal Nomads, a former corporate lawyer-turned-long-term-traveler from Montreal.  Jodi has been eating her way around the world for more than two years and has had many and varied experiences during her time on the road, including having her temporary home neighborhood [...]

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10 Tips for Hiking Alone Safely

May 18, 2010

Believe it or not, another hiking season is upon us.  Growing up in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont as I did, I have an appreciation for going for long walks in the woods and hiking mountains with friends and family.  But I’ve never gone alone, because I am hyper-aware of all the bad things that [...]

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Solo Travel Confessions

April 27, 2010

What I am about to say may shock you:  I quite often don’t practice what I preach when it comes to solo travel safety.  There is a lot of sound advice about safety for solo women that is commonly-held and repeated among travelers (including me!).  Most of it, I adhere to.  For instance, I make [...]

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Safety in the French Quarter

January 9, 2009

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 [...]

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Bah, Life Vests. Who Needs Them?

September 16, 2008

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 [...]

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