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Solo Travel Gets An Unfair Rap
Had I waited for a companion with whom to travel around the world in 2000,
I'd still be waiting. Instead, from April to September of that year,
I traveled solo to 21 countries across five continents, fulfilling a
long-term dream...
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Make Room For The Solo Travelers
As a traveler who has visited all seven continents mostly solo, I've had
much experience with the single supplement, the fee that travel operators
charge to compensate for what they consider "lost" revenue for
double-occupancy-rated tour packages. This fee can range from
$150 to $1,000 per traveler depending on group size, trip itinerary
and the negotiating power of the company...
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The Myth Of The Defenseless Woman
Three female surgeons, one of whom is six weeks pregnant, take off for
a weekend at a cabin in the woods. Since the cabin belongs to a friend
of a friend, the trio discovers too late its leaky roof, faulty bathroom
plumbing and bum stove. The electricity fizzles. A local resident, whom
the women met when they stopped in town for directions, appears at the
cabin door offering help...
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No Terrorist Is Going To Stop My Travel Plans
After years of procrastination, I had finally booked a two-week dream vacation
to Egypt scheduled for January 1998. In November 1997, terrorist snipers at
Hatshepsut's temple in Luxor killed 58 tourists, two police, and two Egyptian
civilians before being killed themselves when surrounded by authorities.
In the days following the news report of the attack, all my colleagues
said, "You're going to cancel, right?"...
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Getting in and out of the Wilds of West Hartford
I told my friend Ron that Northeast asked me to orienteer and then
write about my experience. The telephone receiver swelled with
silence and then, a guffaw hurled from Ron's spleen. "You?" he
asked, followed by an unsolicited crash course in reading the sun's position.
Reacting to my latest assignment, my friend Sharon slapped a palm across her
mouth to keep from sputtering Merlot all over our restaurant dinner table.
"Do they know?" she queried...
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