Single Woman Looking: Bikini Boot Camp and Olivia
I’ve never met anyone while doing crunches, but maybe that would be different if I wore my bikini while pumping on my abs as the sweat glistens off my torso with a backdrop of white sand and crystal blue water. I’ve met men in stranger ways.
My gay male friends are always going on cruises, and they come back with wild stories and new boyfriends. Olivia, a travel company for lesbians, is celebrating thirty-five years with a cruise around the Caribbean with Margaret Cho comedy show and a kick-off concert with k.d. lang. Now that’s a cruise I would book, regardless of sexual orientation.
Adventure Woman: Patagonia Expedition
My personal bucket list includes a visit to Patagonia before the glaciers melt into the sea. Through Extremely Patagonia, women can take trips sea kayaking, trekking, glacier climbing, mountaineering, and packrafting in the company of other adventure nuts.
Biker Woman: Hug the Curve
Okay, so ever since my mother threw me on the back of her moped at the age of six with my own helmet, I’ve wanted my own motorcycle. I keep saying that I’ll get my license, and then I chicken out. But to ride the open road with a bunch of other Thelmas and Louises just might push me toward buying my hot leather jacket.
Philanthropic Woman: Cross-Cultural Solutions
My best moments in travel usually include chatting with a local or giving back in some capacity. It led me to Mother Teresa’s orphanage for girls in Calcutta for a morning and to my volunteer job teaching English in the slums of Bangkok. With Cross-Cultural Solutions, you work with local people to help them achieve programs already in place in their community. Now that’s a trip that keeps on giving.
I’d like to do each of these trips in my lifetime, maybe one a year, so that by the time I’m retired and ready to be a full-time traveler, I’ll already have a good start on reaching 100 percent on my Facebook travel application!
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