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5 Tips for Saving on Baggage Fees by Packing Light: This is important today to avoid baggage fees. In addition, it’s no fun to lug baggage around the world! With the constantly rising cost of airfare coupled with excessive single supplements, travel for singles always...

  5 Tips for Finding The Right River Cruise Now for the best vacation! Although I make my way solo around the globe from sub-Sahara Africa to the Middle East, there are remote locations where that just does not work. A case in point: I spent Christmas 2013 upriver in the...

20 Travel Tips for Saving without Sacrificing Quality: Use the extra savings to see sights and take additional extended tours. Travel costs are an issue for most travelers, especially now coming out of a prolonged recession. Having been a keen global traveler, I am always looking...

Avoiding Identity Theft on Solo Travel :  On a past trip to South America, I had a surprise. Our host said he was on a kidnap list. Three of his friends had been kidnapped.  In some places, this is a way to get paid ransom as a type of business practice. I had thought this was...

New Tips How to Make Solo Adventure Travel Easier Now: Adventure travel is my passion. However, there have been some challenges. I just missed being a snack for crocodiles. I have gone through low grade wars abroad. I have survived two emergency landings on commercial jets. I...

Travel Insurance for Solo Travelers: The need for insurance has grown with concerns as to political issues around the world and terrorist attacks. It also is important in case of petty theft or accidents. I was glad I had it when I was robbed at noon in a top European town. It is...

Traveling to Jordan Solo Travel Jordan: As the picture below shows, Jordan is a combination of the present day and its ancient past. It has a mix of Nabataean, Greek, Roman and Arab culture.  That made for a really fascinating trip. (Before you head out, please check out our late...

No Single Supplements 5 New Solo Travel Search Tips: We are moving ahead constantly to make it easier to find great solo travel deals with our Solo Travel Pricing Tracker.  There are 5 categories by best pricing. The first option: The first “No Single Supplements”...

Solo Travel Pricing Tracker-First Solo Adventure Travel 5 Tips Adventure travel has been an active part of the growing solo travel trend. Baby Boomers and Millennials are all heading out to join this crowd.  My first solo adventure was as a college student. Like most students, I...

Avoid Arrest Abroad-Solo Travel Tips: In your plan to go abroad for fun, it is easy to miss strict laws at your chosen spot. In Asia and the Mideast, drug laws are well-known. In one such destination, I recall at Immigration/Customs a sign that “drug traffickers face the death...