10 Must-know Tips for Traveling Solo

Going Solo? Go Smart.

There’s something wonderfully freeing about traveling on your own. You get to choose where you go, what you see, when you eat—and nobody gets to complain that you’ve spent entirely too long in that little shop you discovered three streets back.

But traveling solo after 60 does come with one extra bit of planning: be honest about what your body can comfortably handle. If walking five miles a day is going to make day two miserable, choose a hotel closer to what you want to see. Check whether that charming little European hotel has an elevator. Think twice about the 40-pound suitcase you'll have to wrestle onto a train. Build in a slower morning or an afternoon with absolutely nothing on the schedule.

The goal isn't to travel like you're 35. It's to travel in a way that lets you keep going. A little planning around stamina, mobility and comfort can mean the difference between enduring a trip and absolutely loving it.

Travel + Leisure has put together 10 excellent tips for traveling solo after retirement—from safety and planning to packing light and trying something new.

https://www.travelandleisure.com/tips-for-senior-solo-travel-11977259