The Papua New Guinea Trick That Turns Solo Travelers Into Instant Micro-Tribes

The Papua New Guinea Trick That Turns Solo Travelers Into Instant Micro-Tribes

You never find somebody who's just like you, not even twins. My guest today, Kristine Madera, has backpacked solo through China, Russia, and the Baltics during the fall of the Soviet Union, served in the Peace Corps in Papua New Guinea, taught English in Japan, and spent years since teaching other travelers how to belong in cultures that were never built around them. We get into the two-minute trick a Peace Corps trainer taught women stationed in Papua New Guinea, why small talk is never actu...

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How to Use Delight to Guide Your Next Travel Adventure

How to Use Delight to Guide Your Next Travel Adventure

I was on a walkway in Brazil, soaked through, my raincoat sitting on the bus, walking back as fast as I could and repeating under my breath, "This is crazy." Most weeks I talk about solo travel as pra...

23 Syys 18min

Solo Travel Taught Me Mine and Ours Aren't Opposites

Solo Travel Taught Me Mine and Ours Aren't Opposites

By the time I actually landed in Lagos, everyone else had already been there for a full day because my visa came through late. Once I was there, surrounded by family for my stepmother's 61st birthday,...

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This Solo Travel Skill Saved My Family Trip  to Nigeria

This Solo Travel Skill Saved My Family Trip to Nigeria

I was standing in the corner of Edinburgh airport with two suitcases, a backpack, a side bag, and no visa, making call after call that went nowhere. The plan had been for my whole family to fly to Lag...

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From the Vault: Feeling Ready When You Take The Solo Trip

From the Vault: Feeling Ready When You Take The Solo Trip

I'm bringing this one back from the vault. I recorded it in April, before this month took me through Nigeria, Ghana, and Rwanda, and before I missed an episode for the first time because I didn't have...

29 Heinä 26min

From the Vault: What It Costs to Wait to Be Seen

From the Vault: What It Costs to Wait to Be Seen

I recorded this one a while back, and in it I explore a feeling so many of us have after 40, where you walk into a room and somehow nobody quite registers that you're there. Back then I thought the an...

8 Heinä 21min

Follow the Feeling, Not the Feed: Choosing Solo Travel Destinations After 40

Follow the Feeling, Not the Feed: Choosing Solo Travel Destinations After 40

A lot of us have a list somewhere, in a notes app or just in the back of our heads, of places we'd like to visit. Every place on it sounds lovely, and not one of them is an obvious yes. So we keep res...

1 Heinä 28min

From the Vault: Solo Travel Safety for Women Beyond the Rules

From the Vault: Solo Travel Safety for Women Beyond the Rules

Safety can become a giant question, one that seems to require a single answer before we are allowed to book the trip. But that is not how it works when you are actually travelling. What matters is the...

24 Kesä 14min

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