Dear Ageless Traveler, I have a question for you. What do you think when you see a woman at a music venue, concert, or cabaret dancing by herself? Does your answer change if it’s a man? The way you answer is a clue as to how much freedom you allow yourself in traveling alone. When I see folks dancing alone, I see people with self-confidence, ready to have fun. But it wasn’t always like that for me. I was a fat kid (are we allowed to use that word anymore?) and mercilessly body shamed. I spent...
Dear Ageless Traveler, I’m really excited about this week’s The Ageless Traveler podcast because it’s all about Nepal, a place I missed in the 60s that I think might have changed the direction of my life. I was a college kid clutching my Europe on 5 Dollars A Day book, and after visiting Italy, I had a choice: go to Greece by myself or go with the cool, hippie types to Kathmandu. I went to Greece. I also went to law school and never pursued my desire to be a writer, a scholar, maybe an...