Posts Tagged ‘travel’

“Is it worth it?” This is fast becoming my least favorite phrase on the travel message forums that I frequent. I see it several times a day, about everything from specific restaurants, to different kinds of theme park passes, to attractions and shows, to resorts and hotels. It’s such a loaded question. I don’t know [...]

TripIt.com and LinkedIn.com have partnered up to provide a social networking application with which you can share your upcoming travel plans with your connections and networks on LinkedIn.  This is one way solos can connect with people they already know when they’re on the road.  Click on the play button below to see how it [...]

I just wanted to share this great piece by veteran flight attendant James Wysong, author of Flying High with A Frank Steward: More Air Travel Tales From the Flight Crew, who writes a column at MSNBC.com. (If you’re not regularly reading his stuff, I recommend it. He has terrific insider knowledge of how the airline [...]

This doesn’t have anything to do with solo travel, per se, just travel, but I wanted to share this lovely quote by Matt Damon from his interview in the most recent Conde Nast Traveler (“Matt Damon’s Good Work Hunting”): Damon believes in the power of travel to transform people. He wishes that Americans were less [...]

American Express Travel recently conducted a survey on the personal hobbies and interests that travelers pursue while they travel and turned up some interesting statistics. Despite the softening economy, people are still planning trips to pursue their passions. In fact, 87% of survey respondents said that they were still planning to take the same number [...]