Where and How Can Vacationing Singles Meet Interesting People Cheaply?
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, September, 1998 by Jo Broyles Yohay
When a tour has a serious, profound purpose - when people focus on a travel goal outside of themselves - then whether they are traveling by themselves or as a couple becomes utterly unimportant, and no one thinks about it. What's more, such tours attract the most dynamic of all Americans. The New World of Travel
Thanks to a grandmother who regularly read maps instead of novels, wanderlust is in my blood. A few years back, an acute attack hit in midwinter when neither friends nor family could leave home. Convinced that something inside me would shrivel and die if I ignored the call of the open road, I decided to set out solo for the South American rain forest, which I longed to see before it vanishes. An organized tour seemed smart. After all, a woman doesn't normally just march off into the jungle alone. But tour-bus images haunted ...