First, please go to this FB site: Solo In Style: Women Over 50 Travelling Solo & Loving It!

You will find some 67,000 women of an age all traveling solo. The site is full of suggestions, ideas, partnering up folks and new friends. It's lively, fun and mostly polite (there are the occasional snarks) but for the most part the place is full of support, suggestions and travel ideas all from women going it alone. Second, the way I see it Mary, what is the greater tragedy? LIving life out of fear and not doing what you want to do? or going anyway, having a bump (I've had MANY of them) and discovering along the way that people everywhere are a good sight kinder than we ever imagined?