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Solo Thailand: Learning to Ride a Motorbike for the first time

Mood: “Am learning to ride a motorbike in Pai” (Thailand)

This has been my Skype status, since November 2009, and it occurred to me why I haven’t bothered updating it. My  first attempt to master “traveling alone in a developing country”, was my greatest achievement in the past year; and (more…)

Remodeling “New” in 2010

by Christine Ka’aloa

A picture from my recent trip in Thailand: Guan Yin & the thousand arms:is known in many asian countries to be the goddess of compassion, prosperity and safe travels. She is known also as the protectoress of air travelers!

Before entering the new year, I always make it a ritual of spending time to assess the present year- its highs, lows, lessons and challenges. Then, I set my goals for the future. This time however, my humuna-humuna ritual time was eclipsed by work on New Year’s Eve, fatigue …and the sudden realization that unlike my previous years, I really hadn’t a clue as to how to go about goal setting for this upcoming 2010!

(Fuzzy, vague, dark to pitch black is how the actual picture of 2010 looked…)

2009 Takeaways: Things I learned as a solo traveler

I learned two valuable lessons  this year as a beginning solo traveler -

1) Believe in my self resourcefulness and its ability to handle the unknown, and
2) Go with the flow, while trusting things will work out in the way they were meant.
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GRRRL TRAVELER’s Travel Challenge #2: Becoming an Expat


The gamble we take in following dreams is that we are never certain of the outcome; yet, a staid and sensible path can be just as uncertain.

Finding the GRRR to embark upon bold new adventures, which remove us from trusted and worn paths, can feel both terrifying and exhilarating. Terrifying, because we must call upon our self-belief to guide us through “the unpredictable and unknown”. Exhilarating, as we are released from our own self-created prisons and given freedom to grow towards our passions, experience new challenges or changes within ourselves and to create a lifestyle that is potentially more meaningful and extraordinary.

When our country’s recession created a drag in my career as Shooter-Producer of reality TV shows, I (more…)

The Good, the Bad & the Inevitable of a Beginner Solo Traveler


Back from my GRRRL TRAVELER beginner solo trip with lots of cool experiences to share from Thailand and what I’ve learned about being on the solo road! Everything from mastering squat toilets and cold showers while trekking in the mountains, eating bugs, drinking tiger penis soaked whiskey in Laos, smoking with Buddhist monks, practicing circle 8′s with a guesthouse owner’s motorbike so I could rent a scooter, getting lost virtually …everywhere and more. I have the promise of upcoming tips and advice for beginning GRRRL soloists like myself, the leak of a  GRRRL TRAVELER contest and challenge#2, and much much more…

Firstly, a shout out of warm Mahalos to all the friends following my fun updates on Facebook (sorry Twitterverse- you got gyped some…). Special Mahalos to those who super-caring and supportive of my first solo-solo and who went of their way to make (more…)

Solo Travel: How to Hurdle your Fears of Traveling Alone

From a Dark Dwellings photo series that I shot when I was lost one night working in Ashland, Ohio

 

I have two crucial saboteurs to my GRRRL TRAVELER challenge: Becoming a Female Solo Traveler. Unless I find a way to deal with them, my plans are stillborn and I will not clear my challenge hurdle.

Here’s some steps I’ve taken as an attempt to deal with them: (more…)

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GRRRL TRAVELER’s Challenge #1: Being a Beginner Solo Traveler

How to become a solo traveler and hurdle your first time fears

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