Category: Road Trips
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Best Road Trips
Whether you want to plan your road trip route or drive it on the fly, here are the most unique, top three Trailheaders-approved road trips for solo female travelers (and fellow free spirits) in the United States.
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Hiking and Road Tripping Hwy 395 Along the Eastern Sierras (Part I)
Any solo female traveler can tell you, it’s easy to fall in love on the road. Maybe with a sexy stranger, maybe with the #2 combo at a roadside burger stand, maybe with a whole new city. Yes, it’s easy to fall in love ON the road, but traveling on Highway 395 in eastern California…
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Don’t Be Soar-y For Not Knowing About Canada Day & Other Things I Learned In Montreal & Toronto
“Wow, these Canadians are so patriotic! There are flags and festivities all over the place,” I remarked to my friend as we surveyed Victoria, British Columbia from the ferry dock. It was 2003, my first time to Canada, and I was clueless about international travel. I was so clueless, in fact, that I didn’t even…
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Six Things in Wyoming You Must See For Yourself
The U.S. state of Wyoming has some incredible sights, but let’s be honest about one thing. Depending on where and how you arrive, the scenery might not make for the fondest first impression. If you expect it to look like Jackson Hole Mountain Resort ski area all over the state, I have some bad news.…
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Volcanoes and Cliff Dwellings Road Trip: Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico
How about a road trip south from Denver to southern Colorado and northern New Mexico? This route is often overlooked in favor of “heading west” from Denver over the Continental Divide, but the scenery south is no less spectacular, albeit in a different way. On this road trip, alternate between volcanoes and cliff dwellings in…
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Tour the Allman Brothers Band House in Macon, Georgia
The house is big, but the legend is bigger. Visit the Allman Brothers Band (ABB) Museum in Macon, Georgia, and you’ll see for yourself. It’s called The Big House, after all. Band members and their significant others rented it in 1970 with some of their earliest proceeds after signing with Macon-based Capricorn Records. The Big…
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Only Sort of Solo in San Diego
One of the secrets of solo travel is that you rarely have to be solo. While you might choose to book the trip or literally do the traveling part alone, it seems rare to be all alone on a trip unless you choose to be. For example, I recently took a solo trip to San…
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Road Trip: Devil’s Tower & the Dakotas
I lived in the great state of Wyoming for nearly a decade, and it bothered me that I had not yet made the time to visit Devil’s Tower National Monument. My “50 by 40 Goal” is to visit all 50 states by the time I’m 40, and looking at my atlas, I realized that a…
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Colorado’s Cool Sahara, the San Luis Valley
Although many people associate Colorado with swishing down snow-capped summits, there is a lot more to the landscape than mountains. The state also has fertile farms, rolling ranchland the tallest sand dunes in North America. The San Luis Valley (SLV) is a great roadtrip just a few hours south of Denver or north from Albuquerque. This surreal place…
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Road Trip: Priceless Cash
Visiting the Boyhood Home of Johnny Cash Driving west to Colorado from Tennessee, it would have made sense to take I-40 through Memphis. However, a nagging voice in my head (traveler’s intuition) told me to save Memphis for another time, hopefully when I have a travel buddy. I zoomed waaaaay in on the map to…