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Authentic solo travel experiences

Created by and for baby boomer-aged travelers that want to get the most out of hard-earned resources – for rugged treks up mountains and across jungles or creature-comfort in sumptuous lodgings. Are you drawn to experiential, immersion travel? Do you seek destinations where you engage with local customs, culture, and cuisine? Here is a community for inspiration to remain fit enough to keep searching for sunsets that take our breath away, wide skies full of stars and unforgettable food.

Solo adventures for women that will not be defined by age

You already know how to budget and plan your travel. Health is our most precious resource. Let’s keep fit enough to carry weight, hike, climb and navigate water, sand and the stairs that often show up on beaches.

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Ditch Polite. Travel Far. Come Home Safe. | Solo Woman Traveler Safety Guide

A real-world safety guide for solo women travelers — written for the woman who has been making her own decisions for decades and intends to keep doing exactly that.

Corcovado National Park: A Solo Wildlife Adventure at the Edge of the World

Fit for the World: Why Your Home Community Is the Secret to Big Adventures

New Orleans French Quarter for Solo Women Over 60: Walking, Eating, and Actually Getting Some Sleep

Surfing After 60: Finding the Ride at Playa Venao, Panama

You cannot store courage in a suitcase and unpack it in Nicaragua. You build it at home, in the ordinary weeks between trips. A manifesto on surfing after 60 — across Ecuador, Nicaragua, and Panama — and the training, the crew, and the mindset that make it possible.

Can You Carry What You Packed?

León, Nicaragua: A Solo Traveler’s Guide to Its Colonial Heritage and Poetic Soul

Selva Negra: A Solo Traveler’s Guide to Nicaragua’s Famous Coffee Estate

A working coffee estate in Nicaragua's cloud forest, founded in 1891 — and one slow afternoon with a demitasse of long-fermented coffee that tastes of blackberry, wine, chocolate, and honey.

Hiking the Santa Emilia Waterfall: Finding Solitude in the Nicaragua Cloud Forest

A Nicaraguan ecolodge cradled in jungle cliffs, a thundering waterfall, a muddy cave I wisely walked past — and a full day alone in a cloud forest alive with 200 bird species, monkeys, deer, and one small leopard-spotted cat.

Matagalpa and San Ramón: A Solo Traveler’s Guide to the Heart of Nicaragua’s North

A chicken bus climbs from Lake Nicaragua into the storied northern highlands — coffee country, cradle of rebellion, and a village whose Sunday Mass becomes its own kind of welcome.

Masaya Volcano Night Tour: Standing at the Edge of Nicaragua’s Mouth of Hell

Masaya Volcano — the active crater the 16th-century Spanish named the Mouth of Hell — and what a solo traveler learns about accepting a stranger's hand on uncertain ground.

Laguna de Apoyo: A Solo Traveler’s Guide to Nicaragua’s Most Peaceful Crater Lake

A quiet afternoon at Laguna de Apoyo — a twenty-thousand-year-old volcanic crater lake between Granada and Masaya where stillness is the whole point.