International Women’s Day is a global holiday celebrated on March 8 every year since the early 1900s. It marks the achievements of, and celebrates, women around the world.  In honor of the day, I wanted to share some resource links with you specifically for female travelers. Hostelbookers resources for women includes listings of female-friendly hostels [...]

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 [...]

Following my successful foray into solo travel in the mid-1990s, I decided to make it a habit.  But independent travel is a bit different than letting someone else do all the planning for you, so I started looking around online for resources for solo travelers.  To no one’s surprise, I’m sure, I didn’t find a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Every once in awhile, I come across an article I find so useful and interesting, that I just have to share it with you.  This is one of them.  Women on the Road just published an interview with Candy Harrington on the topic of women traveling (solo) with disabilities.  She answers the question of “Should [...]