If you feel a strong desire to travel, you’re not alone. Wanderlust and Lipstick: The Essential Guide for Women Traveling Solo by Beth Whitman, Founder and Editor of Wanderlust and Lipstick, certainly inspire me to travel. In the intro, Beth reveals how much feedback she’s gotten from women that they need to travel now – whether it’s for a lifestyle change, an escape, or a mental health break. Divided into 19 chapters, the book gives you everything you need to complete a successful trip — regardless of your previous travel experience. Beth mixes terrific advice drawn from her twenty years of experience as an adventure and business traveler, tips and stories from more than 45 solo female travelers, and illustrations by Elizabeth Haidle.
The first chapter gives you four great reasons to travel solo, the Travel Idea Generator helps you find your purpose for your trip, and the third chapter teaches you how to overcome common excuses such as the misconception that traveling alone equals loneliness. You’ll also learn about planning for a trip, the booking stage (including a priceless tip to ensure it’s safe to pay with your credit card online), and different types of accommodation in This Bed is Juuuust Right.
The following chapters take in ways to get around, formalities (passport, visas, and things you must photo copy before leaving), staying healthy on the road, the importance of having insurance, packing properly, traveling with gadgets, budgeting, record keeping, tipping, currency conversion, safety, and responsible travel.
The Essential Guide for Women Traveling Solo is filled with invaluable tips to make sure you’ll get the most out of your trip – before, during and after. I especially enjoyed the chapters Reach out and touch someone, Hurdling language barriers, and Getting acquainted, where Beth shares a quote worth repeating. “Everyone you come into contact with on the road is a potential new friend.” I also liked her suggestions on how to ease yourself back into life at home after a trip, and the alphabetically listed website resources at the end.
In the last chapter, Beth says “…whatever your dreams are, start planning that adventure today.” I couldn’t agree more and highly recommend you get hold of your own copy. Wanderlust and Lipstick can be purchased at Solo – Wanderlust and Lipstick.
Disclaimer: I received the PDF version of the second edition of Wanderlust and Lipstick: The Essential Guide for Women Traveling Solo by author Beth Whitman.
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