A librarian’s love for reading inspires a lifetime of solo travel, including trips deep into libraries in the heart of the Peruvian jungle.
Type of Travel
Solo Travel
Empowering women over 50 to live the life of your dreams
Finding Connection as a Solo Traveller on New Zealand’s South Island
Amanda Burgess chronicles her solo travel adventures on New Zealand’s South Island and shares observations about ts people and herself.
How to Travel Full-Time: A Solo Traveller Shares Her Tips
Solo traveller Kate Savory shares her tips to help women travel full time, including where to stay, how to pack and more.
Solo Travel Tips for Women Over 50
Guest Writer Sue Janzen offers her perspective on solo travel for women over 50, with practical advice and tips for first-timers.
Expert Self-Defense Tips for Women Travellers Over 50
Women’s safety expert Lorna Selig shares her advice to prevent an assault on women over 50 at home and while traveling.
How Women Can Embrace a Slow Travel Mindset, with Slow Travel Pioneer Pauline Kenny
We chat with slow travel pioneer Pauline Kenny to explore the benefits of slow travel for us and the earth.
Travel Safety Tips for Women From a Self Defense Expert
Self-defense expert Lorna Selig shares her top travel tips for women and hosts a 60-minute self-defense training class.
Hiking Ireland’s Kerry Way Starts With the First Step
The Kerry Way is a 214-km circular hike that begins and ends in Killarney, Ireland and takes eight to 10 days to complete. Just the challenge guest writer Pandora Domeyko needed.
Five Tips to Find the Perfect Travel Roommate
Finding a husband can be easier than finding a roommate. Diana Eden shares her top 5 tips to help mature solo women find the perfect travel roommate.
Finding Renewal in New Zealand: How I Overcame my Fear of Travelling Solo Again
After the death of her husband Gabe in 2018, the prospect of going through life solo filled Amanda with dread. She faced her grief, anger and loneliness in a two-week solo travel adventure in New Zealand.
A JourneyWoman Valentine: Writing a Love Letter to Your Younger Self
This year, why not write a love letter to your younger self for Valentine’s Day? Share it with us at our special event on February 14.
Maria Finds Total Healing in Spanish Retreat
Looking for physical healing post knee surgery, Maria S. booked a wellness retreat – and walked away with a ‘prescription’ for a lifetime of health in mind, body and spirit.
Solo Travel Memoirs: An Art Professor Rediscovers Her Muse in Travel Sabbatical
An art professor who reluctantly heads out on a scheduled sabbatical renews her passion for her own art and gets a preview of an exciting post-retirement life of her own creation.
Seeking Solace in the Healing Springs of New Mexico
How one woman went from rock bottom to the top, burned herself out, and found rejuvenation in the healing mineral springs of New Mexico.
Event Planner Learns to Loosen Her Travel Itinerary in Portugal
A burned-out, broken-hearted event planner moonlighting at a Portuguese tapas bar in Toronto rediscovers herself in a Habitat for Humanity build in Portugal.
Solo Travel Memoirs: Finding Healing and Stillness in Nepal
After a failed relationship that broke her heart and a fall that broke her jaw, a solo traveller seeks healing in Nepal.
How Women Find Healing and Renewal in Solo Travel
When faced with loss or grief, we intuitively turn to travel for wellness and healing, as shown in these inspirational stories of renewal.
Travel Tips: Why Estate Planning Should be Part of Your Pre-Travel Checklist for Solo Travel
Willful CEO Erin Bury shares her top 4 reasons to ensure women have an estate plan is in place before you travel, giving you peace of mind that your loved ones are protected in the event of an unexpected emergency.
How I Rediscovered my Solo Travel Mojo in New Zealand’s South Island
In the first installment in a new New Zealand series, Editor Amanda Burgess chronicles her two-week solo travel adventure through New Zealand’s South Island – the crazy things she did on her ‘Adrenaline Junkie’ tour, the friends she made, and her insights about this breathtaking country, its people, and herself.
Pandemic Postcards to Places Solo Travelers Miss
We know that women – the key decision-makers in travel – will shape its future. Our choices, our demands, where we put our dollars will influence how the industry rebuilds and reinvents itself. JourneyWomen pen postcards to places they plan to revisit post-pandemic.
Women’s Solo Travel: Hiking Safety Tips in the Colombian Rainforest
You may be a solo travel expert, but have you ever hiked Colombia on your own? Contributor Samantha Glauser shares what she learned on her solo adventure through the Colombian rainforest.
Women Share the People Who Inspired Them to Travel Solo
Ask any traveller who or what first inspired her to travel, and the answer will bubble up in her unbidden. This month, three globetrotting JourneyWomen – Brenda, Karen and Sue – divulge their earliest travel inspirations, and the impact that travel has had on their lives and adventures
Solo Travel Memoirs: Marion’s Indomitable Spirit
A seasoned solo traveller shares her earliest travel inspirations, youthful escapades, how to stay independent when travelling as a couple, and finding hope through travel after being widowed.
Age-Defying Travel Adventures: Age is Just a Number, Say These Older Women
Women solo travellers share their most inspiring and age-defying travel adventures, showing that age is just a number!
