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Planning Your First Trip to Shenandoah National Park: What You Need to Know

Looking to plan a trip to Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park? Want the inside scoop? I just solo road tripped there last weekend! It was my first time in the park, and I’d love to share my experience! I was super excited to visit since everyone on the Internet will tell you fall in SNP is …

How to do a plastic free Halloween

As a self-proclaimed Halloween aficionado, I felt it was my responsibility to write this post. Halloween is my second favorite holiday (after Christmas, of course). I trick-or-treated until a ridiculous age because who doesn’t love dressing up and getting free candy? Not to mention with things like haunted houses, scary movies, and the Monster Mash, …

Top 5 Things I’ve Learned From Starting My Blog

Happy Birthday Blog! I can’t believe You Had Me At Solo is turning one. I just renewed my domain and had a flash back to how hard it was for me to come up with a name for everything. I was so excited to get started and then I couldn’t get past the first step. …

A Local Adventure – Stoneleigh

I am a big believer that literature informs travel and vice versa. In The Writing Life Annie Dillard asks, “why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and vivify all in experience that most deeply engages our intellects and our …

5 Things Every Solo Traveler Needs

When traveling alone packing becomes Priority #1 because if you forget it, there’s no one to fall back on. You could Google the basic travel essentials until the end of time so here are five “off the beaten path” items every solo traveler needs. Tripod – for pictures to show everyone when you get home. …