What happens when the person you’ve shared a life and traveled with is suddenly not there anymore? How do you get started in solo travel?
Type of Travel
Widows
Women who have embraced solo travel after loss share their inspiring stories of bravery, exploration, growth, and healing.
How Travel Changes Us: From Grieving Widow to Cheetah Crusader in Kenya
When Michele McCarthy was widowed, she turned to solo travel as a way to reinvent herself as a cheetah crusader in Kenya.
7 Tips to Take the First Step into Solo Travel After Loss
Women travellers and experts offer tips and wisdom on taking the first shaky step into solo travel after loss.
Travel After Loss: From a Disaster Trip to Solo Bliss
After a disastrous first post-loss trip with a fellow widow, a solo traveller learns that the only way to get what she wants out of travel is to go solo.
Travel After Loss: Getting Back Into the Solo Travel Saddle
Diving headfirst back into solo travel after losing her husband helps a widowed traveller find herself again.
Just Do It: Widows Who Have Travelled Solo After Loss
A widowed traveller finds strength and healing in the self-reflection and challenge of solo travel and never looks back.
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.
Newly Widowed? Tips for Women Traveling Together
The friendship of women, especially over age 65, is invaluable. They have seen both the joys and sorrow of life and are so ready to be in the moment.
Grief Journeys – Travel After Loss
Grief and loss are part of the human experience. Indeed, it’s something the world is feeling collectively right now, gripped as we are by a pandemic. Our stories have one common thread: We all found healing in travel.
