GoingSolo.Life started with a simple truth: the travel industry ignores the independent traveler.
Everything out there is built for couples, families, or groups. The rooms, the tours, and the advice all assume you aren’t traveling alone. We built this site to change that. The solo traveler deserves a real plan, not a fallback option. That is why this platform exists—and it is exactly why we wrote these two books.
The Idea Behind the Books
Solo travel rarely gets the serious treatment it deserves. Instead, there are plenty of quick blog posts and superficial listicles. Most advice simply skims the surface. Independent travelers are usually treated as an afterthought, leaving a massive gap for a real, complete resource.
Both books came from that exact conviction. Solo travelers deserve better than recycled advice dressed up in a new headline. While these books have different purposes, they share the same philosophy. They are practical, direct, and written for the traveler who is done waiting for permission to go.
Solo and 50+: The Complete Guide to Traveling Alone After the Second Half of Life
The 50+ solo traveler segment is growing fast. Unfortunately, it is also poorly served. Most content for this audience is condescending or lazy. It offers “safe” destinations or bolts a generic solo travel paragraph onto the end of an old article.
Solo and 50+ is different. It was built from the ground up for this specific reader.
The book covers everything. Learn how to plan your first trip when the idea still feels scary. Discover how to manage safety without letting fear shrink your world. It details how to handle solo social dynamics, noting how solo travel opens doors that group trips close. You will also find sections on solo cruising, health on the road, and building a true travel lifestyle.
Finally, it addresses the emotional side of solo travel honestly. It explores the freedom, the occasional loneliness, and the ways a solo trip can change how you see yourself. Most travel guides skip these topics, but they matter.
Available now on Amazon and Apple Books
How to Avoid the Most Common Travel Mistakes in 2026
The second book started from a different kind of frustration: the gap between how travel is sold and how travel actually works.
Every traveler has a story. The hotel that looked nothing like the photos. The insurance policy that didn’t cover what they thought it covered. The connection they missed because they didn’t understand how tight “one hour” actually is in an international terminal. The scam that felt obvious in retrospect. The day ruined by something that was entirely preventable.
Bad trips aren’t bad luck. They’re bad preparation — or more precisely, they’re the result of nobody ever sitting down with a traveler before their trip and walking them through the things that actually go wrong.
How to Avoid the Most Common Travel Mistakes in 2026 is that conversation. Not the version dressed up in reassuring language to avoid scaring anyone — the honest version. The one that tells you what the fine print actually says, what the reviews are actually warning you about, and what experienced travelers know that first-timers don’t.
It’s written for 2026 specifically because the travel landscape keeps changing. New rules, new risks, new scams, new booking traps. What worked three years ago isn’t always what works now.
Available now on Amazon and Apple Books
What’s Next
These two books are the beginning, not the end. A third title — Cruising Without the Kool-Aid, an honest guide for the cruise skeptic — is coming in April. The 48-Hour Guide series continues to grow, with Rome, Berlin, and U.S. cities in development alongside the existing London and Paris guides.
Everything built here is built around the same idea that started this site: that independent travel deserves honest, practical resources written for the traveler who’s actually doing it alone.
Both books are available now. If you’ve been waiting for a real guide — one that doesn’t talk down to you, doesn’t pad the page count with things you already know, and doesn’t treat solo travel as a consolation prize — this is it.
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