Solo Adventures for Women Over 60
Buying your tickets early is the best choice. Several airlines ( I usually use American) will let you pay overtime with Affirm or Klarna which leaves you more cash for your trip and you won't have to use your credit card. Buy your tickets early as they'll be much cheaper. Ticket choices will come up with something like Main Cabin, Main Cabin Extra, Main Cabin Extra Extra (ha). If you are absolutely sure your plans will not change then get Main, I usually go the next step and pay a little extra for the right to choose my seat and change my plans.
One more thing. Yes I am old and old-school. You can get your ticket on your phone. I like to print up my ticket at the kiosk in the airport if there is not a big line. First of all, I keep them for mementos. Second when you are in line to get on the airplane the last thing you need is for your stupid phone to die or screw up. I write down my flight info in my little notebook that I keep with me. I hate to keep having to refer to my phone for everything. That's just me!
I always get a ticket where I can pick my seats before checkout. If you wait until check-in you will most likely get a middle seat!! Yikes, no one wants a middle seat when traveling by yourself. Sometimes you have to pay a fee to pick a seat, and a map will come up. Check it carefully as the cheaper seats are sometimes by the exit door (no window) or over the wing-no sense having a window seat unless you want to watch the gears on the flaps. Do not get a seat near the bathroom (even though you think it will be convenient-it won't because it smells, people line up in the aisle to wait, and at night you'll hear the door open and close.) There are websites that you can look at that show you a 360 view of the airplane and what your seat looks like. I use seatmaps
Hi, I'm Meg and I'll be 70 in December. I work as a hospice nurse and love to travel.
My Mantra: don't wait until your bucket list becomes "oh, I wish I had done this or gone to see that" and you no longer can.
You can travel alone or with others but just do it!
On these pages I hope I do inspire you to go it alone and see the world on your terms.
Check out my pages for volunteer vacations the latest at the Elephant Nature Park in Thailand.
You won't find information on cruises (been there done that) but I do include some tips if you're planning to come to Myrtle Beach as that's where I live!
And the most important part-I don't break the bank either. Some of these are "vacations of a lifetime" but inexpensive enough to do again!
Oh and I love the movies!
You'll find movie references to almost everyplace I go.
Check out my European trip. My Dad was in WWII in the 3rd infantry division. He landed at Anzio beach. The picture above is of Hitler's Eagle's Nest in Germany in the Alps. He was a tank driver. I found over 100 photos he had taken during the war that no one knew existed. They were in a shoebox in the closet tucked way back in a corner. I went to Europe and retraced his footsteps.
Leadville Colorado the highest city in North America at 10,156 miles high. It's an old mining town with a museum, lots of hiking, skiing, a few bars. Very cool. Oh, and don't accidentally drive your car up a ski slope-don't ask.
Fred Haise Apollo 13 pilot statue in Biloxi Mississippi. Do you remember Apollo 13? The moon landing was aborted due to damage to the spacecraft. The movie directed by Ron Howard was fabulous. You have to remember the technology way back then in the 70s. It's just remarkable that we pulled this off.
So this is Canyonlands National Park in Utah. I went there because I had read the book by Aron Ralston 127 Hours. He hiked into Bluejohn Canyon in the park in the San Rafael Desert. He fell into a crevice and his hand was trapped by a huge boulder.After days there surely to die, he amputated his hand with a cheap multi-tool knife. I wanted to get a feel for what this place was like. My advice-don't go alone and don't try to hike any of it in July, you can never carry enough water in. I think I lasted about 45 minutes before I turned around.
Tallulah Gorge lookout in Tallulah Gorge State Park in northern Georgia. The Wallenda family known as the Flying Wallendas are high-wire daredevils. Karl Wallenda at 65 years-old skywalked across the gorge for 1000 feet 750 feet above the gorge floor in just 18 minutes! The hiking in the park is fabulous.
The Lynard Skynard memorial where their plane crashed Magnolia Mississippi. It's stunning and solemn.
