50+ Solo Travel

My husband is a great travel partner. He's also not interested in half the places I want to go. He'll do the beach, a resort, or a cruise if I really push for it. But the food tour in Madrid? Shopping in the medinas in Marrakech? Swimming to the edge of devil pool in Zambia? That's not his trip. And honestly, after years of trying to convince him otherwise, I stopped wanting it to be. The first time I booked a trip without him, I felt guilty about it for two weeks. Not becau

No system is perfect. You'll forget something. Something will go wrong. A reservation will be messed up. But having a system means when something goes wrong, you have a foundation to work from. You have backup plans. You have documentation. You have structure.

The hardest part of solo travel at our age isn't navigating foreign airports or eating alone at restaurants. It's giving yourself permission to do it. For decades, we've been the ones taking care of everyone else. But go do something for ourselves? It feels selfish. Let me save you some time: it's not selfish. It's necessary.