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Dog-Friendly Travel Destinations: Discover Them Now:  Guest Post by Mike Powell* Photo by Jacub Gomez from Pexels Nothing quite makes a solo holiday more enjoyable than when you’re traveling with your dog. However, not every highly-frequented destination is as welcoming of your...

5 Safety Tips for Female Solo Travelers: Over two decades, I have explored the remote islands of Rarotonga and Aitutaki, skied an active volcano, dodged a cholera epidemic and navigated a low-grade civil war. I fought off muggers in broad daylight in Europe and barely missed...

Solo Travel Destinations-American South:  During my early childhood days in the US South, each year we had a family road trip visiting cousins and aunts and uncles. Solo Travel Destinations-American South: Eufaula, Alabama: As a child, I was fascinated by the small Alabama town...

Cruise-Boating Safety for Solo Travelers. Although I have had a lifelong love of boating, I am no expert. After two tries at sailing lessons, my skill set is limited to “manning” the winch handle.  The most important thing I learned was don’t drop it over board.  However, I have...

Solo Travel Deals-Castle Hotels: Castle hotels are real steals. During my childhood days, like many young girls, I had dreams of castles with tall towers. Fast forward to the 21st-century, I discovered a really practical reason to be excited about castles.  Set throughout the...

Solo Travel Deals-See All 50 States:  With the 2020-2021 pandemic travel halts, I have been both planning my next journey and daydreaming about my top odysseys over a life time of solo travel. As a teenager, I became an “Accidental Solo Traveler”! That is early on I found that it...

Picking Solo/Singles Trips: As a female solo traveler, I have journeyed through Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Europe.  I have often connected with a few days river cruise or local tour.  I  have frequently been the only solo traveler.  Fortunately having...

Solo Travel Safety Tips-Wildlife Tours: As travel resumes, many tourists will visit national parks and view wildlife in their natural habitat at home and abroad. Unfortunately, interactions with animals can present dangers for animals as well as tourists. In the past week,...

Top Solo Travel Destination-Alaska: I created a combined land and sea package.  The first half of the trip was in Fairbanks and the Denali National Park. The second half was an Inner Passage cruise. When I flew into Fairbanks, it was 72 degree with lots of sunshine.  To my...

Solo Travel-Islands Not Just for Honeymooners- Try Cephalonia! Travel west from Athens to the Ionian Sea.   Solo Travel-Islands Not Just for Honeymooners: The “Other” Greek Isle: I first heard about the “other” Greek Isles from an Athens friend. Cephalonia has...