Although this book was written before 9-11, before email became common-place, before cell phones & Skype, it has some great information for any single traveler, & some especially useful information for a woman traveling alone. There is an updated version that was published in 2003.The book includes lists of travel resources, ideas for working while traveling, reasons why you should go off into the world alone, & why it's not as scary as you may think, as well as travel tales from women who've done it.
One of the stories told it like it is: "A man I met on the plane flying to the South Island offered to give me a ride to the hostel. I accepted, but was on my guard the whole way, wondering if he would take me down a dark road & rape me. But no, he delivered me to the door, shook my hand & said, 'Have a nice holiday.' Coming from the United States, it was hard to orient myself to a place where I was really safe - I wasn't used to that."
Another passage said, "Your chances of getting robbed with a weapon are much lower outside the US."
Wow! We, living in the US, are constantly told that we're "free", that we're "safe" here. But we're really not, are we?
Other resouces that I plan to check out are:
Transitions Abroad Magazine
US Servas Committee
The last sentence in this book reads:
"If I could say one final word, it would be 'Go.' "
I will.
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