Monthly Archives: August 2024

The Joys And Challenges Of Solo Travel

The Joys And Challenges Of Solo Travel – Traveling alone can be challenging and stressful. But it could be the best thing you ever do for yourself.

Maybe you sleep in until 11, eat a big lunch and spend the afternoon shopping during the storm. Maybe you go out with the sun, do yoga and spend time away from technology.

The Joys And Challenges Of Solo Travel

You spend your entire vacation doing exactly what you want. No arguing over where to eat lunch or which direction to walk. There is no obligation to cut short your time at the museum in order to do an afternoon matinee. Just do exactly what you want day after day.

Traveling Solo: Embracing The Freedom And Adventure — Suetanya Mchorgh

I started traveling solo at the age of 20. I was young, full of optimism and going there was the best thing that … Read the rest

Surviving The Wilderness: Essential Backpacking Skills

Surviving The Wilderness: Essential Backpacking Skills – As an eagle scout, I have learned many skills necessary for wilderness survival. Whether you’re planning a hiking trip, camping trip, or just want to be prepared for any situation, there are some basic skills and techniques that can help you stay safe and comfortable in the great outdoors. In this article, I will share some tips and strategies that can help you survive in the wilderness.

Before heading out into the wilderness, it’s important to have a basic understanding of survival skills. This includes knowing how to build a shelter, start a fire, find and purify water, and navigate using a compass and map. Practice these skills in a controlled environment before heading out into the wilderness.

Surviving The Wilderness: Essential Backpacking Skills

Having the right gear can make all the difference when out in the wilderness. Make sure you have appropriate … Read the rest

Best Hiking Trails For Backpackers

Best Hiking Trails For Backpackers – What makes for a great backpacking trip? Top-shelf landscapes are certainly mandatory. In my opinion, an element of adventure enhances a walk. While there’s certainly something inspiring about a big walk in the wild, some of the most beautiful hikes in the country can be done in a few days and half of the hikes on this list are less than 50 miles. Another factor that really matters is a wilderness experience: all ten are in national parks or wilderness areas.

I’ve probably thought about this more than any mentally stable person should, having completed many of America’s (and the world’s) most beautiful multi-day hikes during over thirty years (and counting) of wearing a backpack, including my 10 years as a field editor for Backpacker magazine and even longer responsible for this blog. Ultimately, however, the criterion that matters most is simpler and more … Read the rest

Adventures In The Heart Of The Jungle

Adventures In The Heart Of The Jungle – Start your trip by heading south to surf the hidden breaks and enjoy secluded Dominican beaches. Walk along beautiful trails and canyons to a series of impressive waterfalls where expert guides will teach you how to rappel. Embark on a three-day sea kayaking trip through the Golfo Dulce in the Osa Peninsula. At night, camp on the beach and enjoy dinner by a bonfire while swapping stories about the day’s adventures. Enter Corcovado National Park, watching out for monkeys, sloths, and scarlet macaws. When you’re not exploring the jungle, participate in various infrastructure service projects to support the communities you visit. You could work on infrastructure for low-income communities along with local associations to achieve economic development or environmental conservation projects. Finish your adventure by whitewater rafting the Savegre River.

You will arrive at the Hub airport in Cosán na Drechtóirí where … Read the rest

Wandering Souls: Backpacking Adventures

Wandering Souls: Backpacking Adventures – I am thrilled to assemble and work with this all-star mentoring team. Each is an expert backpacker and guide – they combine extensive first-hand backcountry experience with a passion for learning, excellent people skills, relationship-able family and work life, engaging story-telling and required medical certifications.

Since the program was founded in 2011, I have led 109 trips and spent 511 days in the field with clients. In the first five years, I guided every single trip (58) and spent 76 days in the field. The program has grown significantly since then, but I guide as often as practically possible while staying married and maintaining overall quality—it’s the most fun and rewarding aspect of my work.

Wandering Souls: Backpacking Adventures

My goal on every trip is to empower clients with outdoor skills and knowledge so they can be self-sufficient, lead a group, and confidently undertake their … Read the rest

Solo Travel Photography: Capturing Your Journey

Solo Travel Photography: Capturing Your Journey – Traveling allows you to get out of your comfort zone and experience the incredible beauty this world has to offer. And what we do is try to capture this eternal beauty.  For photography, the first thing that comes to our mind is “Me and My Camera” and capture every amazing thing we witness. But… Hold on! That is the only way to capture the moment. Of course not! Because being in a moment and living it to the fullest would capture that moment in our hearts forever!!!!! Well, we have great ideas to capture the moment forever in your heart.

How about being an observer and collecting the strange stones and pebbles in the place. If you are a stone collector, you can’t miss to find different pebbles to grow your collection. Even if you’re not there, collecting rocks from a specific location … Read the rest

The Solo Traveler’s Guide To Public Transportation

The Solo Traveler’s Guide To Public Transportation – 👉As a solo traveler, I became more sociable and learned that sharing good times with others makes the experience better! This is also a great way to network and learn more about that country or place your new friend(s) are visiting.

1️⃣The language barrier is the main obstacle, I speak Spanish which is a great blessing, but for those of me who don’t speak more than one language, don’t worry! You’ll be surprised to find out how many people besides the tour guide speak English, and many are very helpful and friendly to locals and tourists alike! Try visiting famous restaurants, landmarks, bars, and more. to connect to either!

The Solo Traveler’s Guide To Public Transportation

2️⃣If you want to meet an organized group, try a city tour, bar crawl or food tasting class! Many visitors, myself included, enjoy doing these activities … Read the rest

Hawaiian Food Safari: Island Culinary Adventure

Hawaiian Food Safari: Island Culinary Adventure – I love food tours. So far I have joined a Baja food tour, a Beijing food tour, and a Shanghai food tour. But what will a Hawaii food tour include? Loco moco, lunch plate, pineapple, spam? I found Tasting Kauai on Twitter while researching our last minute trip to Kauai and was intrigued. When I learned that the “Taste of Kilohana” tour included riding the train, touring the Kilohana Farm, snacking on exotic fruit, drinking a Mai Tai, and eating a three-course island lunch, I was sold. I sent Roma to play golf at Kauai Lagoons (he is allergic to pineapple after all) and joined the Tasting Kauai food tour.

Tasting Kauai’s Taste of Kilohana tour began at the Kilohana Plantation train depot. We boarded the train with our guide Kai, the agricultural expert at Kilohana Farm, for an narrated train tour of … Read the rest

Capture Unraveling The Mystery Of Mental Suffering

Capture Unraveling The Mystery Of Mental Suffering – Using in-depth case studies, Can’t Just Stop explores the science behind both mild and extreme compulsive behaviors—“a fascinating read about human behavior and how it can go awry” (The Charlotte Observer).

Whether shopping with military precision or simply hanging up kitchen towels, compulsion is something most of us have witnessed in our daily lives. But compulsions exist on a broad continuum, and at the opposite end of these mild forms are life-altering disorders.

Capture Unraveling The Mystery Of Mental Suffering

Sharon Begley’s meticulously researched book is the first to treat all of these behaviors together—from obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) to hoarding, to exercise compulsions, even compulsions to do good. They may look completely different, but all of these behaviors are ways of coping with varying degrees of anxiety. Sharing the personal stories of dozens of interviewees, “Begley combines personal subject matter with … Read the rest

The Ultimate Solo Traveler’s Checklist

The Ultimate Solo Traveler’s Checklist – The last time I sat down and actually wrote my bucket list, it was 2017! Two years later and I’ve actually managed to knock a few more of these things off, and added more to the list, because of course I have!

So, here’s an updated bucket list with the things I’ve done at the top in the order I did them, and all the things I’m dying to do listed below.

The Ultimate Solo Traveler’s Checklist

I’m also going to make this a permanent page (right next to the ‘Where next?’ page) so I’ll be sure to update it regularly and keep you all in the loop.

Ultimate Solo Traveller Packing List| Useful Apps For Solo Traveller

Closed the list! Unleash my inner witch at the Harry Potter Studios in London Visit the Isle of Skye party for New Years at Edinburgh Hogmanay. … Read the rest