Last updated on March 7th, 2024
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JourneyWoman Webinar: Journeys With Purpose With Humanitarian Carla Geyser on October 15
Join our webinar with humanitarian Carla Geyser to learn the audacious treks she designs for courageous women to raise funds for wildlife.
Finding Your ‘Sisters’ Through Travel: Sisterhood Travels Helps Widows and Solo Women Build Self-Confidence
After her husband and long-time travel partner passed away, Stacey Ray started Sisterhood Travel to help other women build their confidence through travel.
How Women-Led Travel B Corps Are Balancing Profit With Purpose
Meet women entrepreneurs who are changing the rules of the game by transforming their businesses into certified B Corps.
Overtourism: What Can We Do?
News headlines tell us that overtourism is getting out of control, but what can we do to help offset it?
Trailblazer Maggie Duncan Simbeye, Tanzania’s First Indigenous Woman Safari Owner
Meet Tanzania’s Maggie Duncan Simbeye, a trailblazing leader who is opening doors for women to follow their dreams.
Alcohol-Free Travel: A Different (and Healthier) Kind of Journey
With the growth of de-alcoholized beers, mocktails and sparkling wine, there’s never been a better to time to try alcohol-free travel.
The Black Fly in Our Chardonnay: Booze Around the World
Jules Torti and her wife Kim have been on countless adventures in search of booze around the world, from moonshine to craft beers and more!
A Universal Calling for Postmenopausal Women: Travel!
Single, cat-owning, childless… and now they’re coming for the grandmas? It’s up to us to shift stereotypes about postmenopausal women.
Sisters Doing it for Themselves: Hiking the Himalayas in an All-Women Group in Nepal
Sarah O’Regan braves the elements in the Himalayas, finding sisterhood and tranquility with a social enterprise that empowers women.
Meet the 2024 JourneyWoman Awards Finalists: Trailblazing Women over 50
The 2024 JourneyWoman Awards finalists are trailblazing women over 50 in travel, including solo travellers, entrepreneurs and hospitality leaders.
Solo Travel Memoirs
Solo Travel Memoirs: How Photography Leads One Woman on New Journeys
Women travellers share the deep interests, hobbies, and passions that they weave into their travels or build entire trips around.
Solo Travel Memoirs: Sue Finds Family in Brazil
A summer in Brazil changed Sue’s life forever, teaching her about courage and taking risks.
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.
How Curiosity Inspired A Lifetime of Solo Travel
Retired teacher Marillee Carroll uses curiosity as her compass to discover knowledge, people, and experiences on her travels.
More Women’s Solo Travel Stories to Inspire You
Living Life to the Fullest: Adventure Travel for Women at Any Age
Claudia Laroye’s new bimonthly column about women over 50+ in Adventure Travel and the women who live life to the fullest.
Lesbian Travel: Finding Your Place in the World as a Lesbian Traveller
Lesbian travel isn’t just a niche market, says Ginny Lunn of WalkingWomen; it’s a profound commitment to every woman who seeks safe spaces.
On Mother’s Day, Celebrating the Gifts From My Mother
After mother died, I thought I had nothing from her, except a black and white photo. Now, in my 80s, I see that she left me with many gifts.
JourneyWoman Community Call: Decluttering for Travel on May 7, 2024
If you’ve felt the urge to simplify your life, we want to help you shift into a new chapter and declutter for travel.
Decluttering in Midlife: Erica Ehm Makes Space for Her Next Chapter
Erica Ehm has found that decluttering can help clear space, both emotionally and physically, for the next chapter of our lives.
Five Ways You Can Teach Your Grandchildren About Sustainable Travel
As good travellers, we can teach our grandchildren how to make good decisions about the Earth when they travel.
Never Too Late: Bestselling Women Authors Over 50
Ten exceptional women authors over 50 who prove that experience and mature reflection is welcomed, showing us it’s never too late to publish.
Getting Back Into Travel: Widows Who Travel On Their Own Terms
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?
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.
Cactus Cocktails and Low-emission Coffee? What We Can Learn From the Caribbean Island of Bonaire
From cactus cocktails to low-emission cups of coffee, the Caribbean island of Bonaire, population 22,500, is a leader in sustainability, with lessons to teach about the transformative impact of travel.
What My Epic Road Trip Across Southern Africa Taught Me
A road trip across the wilds of Southern Africa helps draw attention to the small things that might have been taken for granted in the past.
Meet Joy Fox, 89, the First Recipient of the JourneyWoman Evelyn Hannon Solo Travel Award
Featured image: Joy Fox is the winner of the first annual Evelyn Hannon award | Photo by Adrienne Guinn, Vital Image PhotographyWith decades of solo travel experience, Fox says if she can do it, so can you by Carolyn Ray It's an honour to announce Joy Fox as the first...
Why It’s Never Too Late: Reinvention at Any Age
It’s never too late to embrace reinvention at any age, as travel writer Leyla Alyanak, 70, is still discovering as she looks for new adventures.
On International Women’s Day 2024, JourneyWoman Celebrates Women Over 50 Leading The “Second Female Travel Revolution”
On International Women’s Day 2024, JourneyWoman celebrates women seeking and creating purposeful travel experiences.
Solo Travel for Seniors: How to Overcome Fear and Get Started in Solo Travel
If you’re a senior woman hesitant about solo travel, here are expert tips to get started and face your fears.
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