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As the Holiday Countdown moves ahead to New Year’s Day, we are continuing our daily series of holiday facts and intriguing solo travel destinations to avoid being “Home Alone for the Holidays”. More Holiday Fascinating Facts: With the beginning of Hanukkah, the...

  Fun and Odd New Year’s Facts: The Danes are said to be the happiest people in the world!  One Danish custom: They relish a melee of dish-throwing to celebrate the holidays. For New Year’s in Denmark:  At the stroke of midnight when the revelry is at its height,...

Updated 10 Tips How to Make Holiday Travel Easier: As the holidays are upon us, there is so much to do and think about before celebrating.   At such busy times, travel can end up more frustrating than festive.  Try our updated tips to make it a better trip.   Updated 10...

  More Fun and Really Odd Holiday Facts: With only 23 days left, it’s time for today’s fun fact about weird and wacky celebrations around the world: Although Santa knows who’s been naughty and nice, Austrians don’t stop there but have their own naughty Mr. Claus...

Having traveled to the Middle East, South Asia and 8 US cities this year, I am planning this Christmas and New Year’s to relax at home in Washington, DC with a leisurely “staycation”. However, prior years I have gone in search of adventure during the holidays. I...

Every year when summer is nearly two-thirds over, I start to think about making plans for the holidays. For the solo traveler, there is no need to find yourself “Home Alone for the Holidays”, but it does take some planning. It is a perfect time to dust off your bucket list and...

Packing and Budgeting with the Solo Sherpa Travel App To make packing and budgeting easy, check out the Solo Sherpa app now available for both Apple and android products at the App Store and Google Play Store . Solo Sherpa solves two of travelers’ biggest challenges: 1. How to...

More Fun and Really Odd Holiday Facts: With the holidays approaching, it is time for fun facts about weird and wacky celebrations around the world: In the Czech Republic, a Christmas Eve tradition before the invention of online dating, single women had a tried (and true?) way to...

Solo Travel Tips for Holiday Savings:  It is time you start considering alternatives to “Home Alone for the Holidays”. Be aware that flights are selling out already. Prices are moving up rapidly. I discovered this myself. Having booked a SE Asia river cruise in early...

  Looking for an alternative to “Home Alone for the Holidays”, I began checking out river cruises. My prior cruise on the Nile had worked well for me. As a solo traveler, I liked the fact that meals, transportation and sightseeing were taken care of while the small ship...