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Solo Female Travel

  • February 4, 2024
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Hi, I’m Rene Cizio I’m a solo traveler, nomad and writer. I share travel stories, tips, and ideas that I hope will give you the inspiration to set you off on an adventure-filled story of your own. You’ll often find me participating in unique experiences and sharing thoughts on the curiosities I find along the way. The places that attract me include art, history, hiking, architecture and national parks. If you like those things too, chances are you’ll find places...

A white marble bust of Poe
a long wood ship post on the wharf with a star carved into the end. pole is yellow and star is blue

Salem History: It’s More than Witches

Salem, Massachusetts, isn’t filed with toil and trouble, at least not anymore. It is a place best known for witches, but as one of the oldest communities in America, there’s more to Salem’s history. Salem was one of the earliest American settlements and has been a place of critical seaport trade since the early 1600s. While tourists mostly come for the witches, there’s much more unique about this early American town, like historic residential neighborhoods, including the House of Seven...

A swam boat in the lake nearing the walking bridge in Boston Common

Walk the Best of Boston’s Freedom Trail

I arrived in Boston without a plan, but once I saw the red line in the street, I found my path along Boston’s Freedom Trail. Boston’s 2.5-mile-Freedom Trail connects historically important churches, meeting houses, burying grounds, parks, ships, and other places to tell a story. That story is one you know well – but probably not as well as you think you do – it’s the American Revolution. The Freedom Trail is easy to find and follow because the path...

house porch the brick looks orange and shaped like octagon, looking north

Inside the Famous Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut

The Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut, is a strange and unique place, reflective of one of America’s most beloved and extraordinary people. Samuel L. Clemens, aka Mark Twain, was born in 1835 in Hannibal, Missouri when Halley’s Comet soared by overhead. Twain, though nearly as well traveled as the comet, spent much of his life in Hartford where his cherished Gothic Victorian house is open for tours. If you’re a fan of ornate Gothic architecture or American writing, visiting...

Two couples stand in front of a colorful cafe. potted plants in the front
a square granite canopy made of pillars alongside the harbor filled with small white boats

Plymouth Rock: 7 Things Visitors Need to Know

Visiting Plymouth Rock is worth it if you’re in the area and have some time to debunk history. When I visited, I had no idea there was so much controversy about this rock. It’s a rock, after all. I was surprised to learn so many stories about it, the surrounding area, and the people who once lived there. But first, is there anyone who was a kid in the 80s who can hear “Plymouth Rock” and not think of “Fraggle...

A marshy green oasis filled with swampy waters, trees and bushes

Five Things You Didn’t Know About Sleepy Hollow

You’ve heard of Sleepy Hollow and the headless horseman, but do you know about the other Sleepy Hollow Cemetery? This one is in Concord, Massachusetts and there are so many famous authors buried there they named a section “Author’s Ridge.” As a taphophile, I had to visit. I recently visited Concord while traveling in my van on a two-year solo nomadic road trip, hiking, visiting historic sites, and staying in short-term rentals. I stopped at the homes and locations made...

A beige wood two-story house with nine windows and a door surround by green grass and bushes
The author stands gazing out at the edge of the pond next to green leafy trees

What to Know if You Visit Thoreau’s Walden Pond

Nearly half a million people from around the world visit Walden Pond yearly to see where Henry David Thoreau lived and penned “Walden,” and I recently joined them. Now a state park, the Walden Pond State Reservation area is an internationally famous National Historic Landmark and is considered the conservation movement’s birthplace. Today, many people use the area for swimming, hiking, boating, and fishing. In the two years, two months and two days Thoreau lived there from July 1845 to...