Have you ever given thought to how your needs change depending on the setting you’re in?  Do you have the same needs when you’re at home and when you travel, or do your needs and priorities change when you travel?  What about when you travel solo versus with others?  Today’s guest blogger, Keith Savage of [...]

I wish you all could have seen the first three tweets I sent from Paris.  Unfortunately, they never made it from my loaner phone back to the Twittersphere.  But if you could have seen them, they would have looked like this: My first day in Paris has not been a resounding success. Parisians are all [...]

A couple of months ago, I wrote about how completely unprepared I felt for my trip to Paris.  Well, dear readers, with about 48 hours to spare, I am now ready for Paris. Whew! Just in time!  I cannot believe how much planning this required compared to my usual domestic trips–especially considering that I’m only [...]

With my own first solo trip to Paris coming up, I am very excited about today’s guest post from Christine Amorose of the travel blog C’est Christine, who has spent the last several months in France. Having immersed herself in the culture for so long, Christine has lots of great tips for the solo traveler [...]

One of the things about solo travel that can be a drag is not having any photos of your travel destination with you in them.  I know I’ve been really shy in the past about asking other people to take my picture for me, and even worse about using the arm-stretch method to take my [...]

Montreal is one of my favorite cities for many reasons. Let’s be honest: The first reason is that it’s the closest large city to where I live, which makes it easier for a weekend getaway than say, Boston or New York. The fact that Montreal residents are bilingual makes it a terrific international destination for [...]

It’s no secret to anyone reading this blog that I started out as a solo traveler by necessity.  I didn’t have anyone else to travel with, and my options were a) travel alone or b) don’t travel.  I decided travel was important to me, so I decided to go alone. Surprise–I now love solo travel.  [...]

Do you have a negative perception of solo travel because you’re single and spend a lot of time alone in your everyday life anyway?  Maybe you think “Why would I want to travel alone, I’m alone enough as it is!”   Don’t write it off so quickly.  Single living and solo travel aren’t necessarily the same. [...]