Hi there,
Here's your round up of posts from Solo Traveler for July!
On August 9th you'll receive our monthly list of deals from companies that serve solo travelers well. Some have reduced their prices, changed their cancellation policies, and/or postponed trips. Like you, they and we are having a tough time right now, but we’re working hard to keep the dream of solo travel alive! Browse through their
offerings in both the Advisory and on the Solo Traveler Deals page as you dream of future trips to come.
Scroll down for news about an exciting option we'll be introducing soon for our valued subscribers (that's you!).
Thanks for reading and sharing.
Take good care,
Janice & Tracey
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Launching July 27th!
The Solo Traveler Insider will offer members more travel-related content, more opportunities to connect with fellow solo travelers, and more access to Janice and me through a membership program. For a small monthly fee you will receive exciting benefits such as:
- monthly speaker series featuring travel experts from around the world
- opportunity to connect directly with other members on a secure platform
- monthly article just for you that will not be published on Solo Traveler
- input into our editorial plan and future events
- early access to special deals, events, and announcements
On top of all this, the first 100 to join will be named Founding Members and will be recognized on our Virtual Wall of Fame on Solo Traveler!
Stay tuned for more info!
New Tours Added! We have created a page exclusively for Canadian Solo Travelers for travel within Canada. It contains tours and day trips that support Canadian companies and the booking platforms allow you to select from hundreds of tours, most of which have excellent cancellation policies. We've created a shortlist of tours that is
organized by region. Bookmark this page and keep checking back as we continue to add to it and change it by season.
Don't worry about traveling alone.
Enjoy the thrill of traveling solo!
What a difference a word makes. Traveling alone sounds, well, lonely. Traveling solo is quite different. It's something that capable, confident, adventurous people do. The Wits & Wonder Travel Course will help you travel solo – not lonely, not timid – confidently.
Give it as a gift. Gift it to yourself.
Looking for a unique gift idea for a birthday, graduation, wedding - or just about any other occasion? Look no further! Tinggly has a great solution that allows your recipient to choose from hundreds of experiences in more than 100 countries. They can use it any time they travel (or even close to home) because there is no expiry date. Whether they choose a helicopter flight
over Niagara Falls, a jungle safari in Nepal, or a tour of Bath and Stonehenge, you're guaranteed to be the person who gave the best gift ever!
If you use public WiFi as you travel,
a VPN is important.
Using a VPN
- Protects you from online identity theft – what a way to ruin a trip.
- Let’s you search the web in your own language when abroad.
- Gives you access to sites that are blocked in certain countries.
For more information about VPNs, read:
To use StrongVPN:
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A Request for Help
Times are tough for the travel industry and that goes for us as well. The number of people visiting the site has dropped to a small fraction of what it was and that affects us in many ways. We're hoping that you will take a few minutes each day to help us.
Here are some things you can do, at no cost to you, to help us during this difficult time.
- Keep reading the blog. This is so important as the more people that go directly to Solo Traveler, without searching for it, the better we look in the eyes of Google and the more people they'll send to us as well. This is our Start Here page.
- It's also very important to go to more than one page when on the blog. To click to the blog and then "bounce" off will actually do us harm. So please, when you go to the blog, take a moment to skim the page, and then click through to at least one more page that interests you and read that as well.
- Pin our posts to Pinterest. If you're on Pinterest, there are three things you can do:
- Follow us here
- Save and visit the pins we already have on our boards.
- When you read a post on Solo Traveler, save the "Save it for later on Pinterest!" images we're adding to the posts.
- Go to our advertisers' page and dream. The companies that are advertising on Solo Traveler have been screened to ensure that they treat solo travelers well. The people in these companies are hurting too. Please go to our advertisers page and start dreaming. Click through to the trips that look of interest to you. It's free and safe to dream.
- Share our newsletters. If you know people who travel solo, perhaps they would like to receive our emails as well. Please feel free to share this email so that they can sign up. Using this link, they'll receive our
travel budgeting template as a bonus. If you don't already have a copy, you can download yours here.
Thank you so much.
Resources for Future Trips
Wondering
About Travel Insurance?
Traveling alone is great. But being seriously sick or injured and alone, not so much. Travel insurance has helped me in many ways. Read about how here.
Bare Minimum Packing: Here’s Your Packing List
Packing lists are the key to packing light. Most people have trouble with this but it’s an important skill for the solo traveler. Readers come back to this post time and again, trip after trip!
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All recommendations are based on my experience and is the advice I give friends. It should be noted that if you buy some recommended products such as travel insurance, I will receive a commission but this does not affect the price you pay.
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