Friday, October 15, 2010
Research
So far, so good! While researching www.solofemaletraveler.com I'm focusing on the posts that are about the identity of a solo traveler as compared to a group and/or couple traveler. Since the author of the blog refers to herself as "Solo Female Traveler" I want to see what this means to her; the identity she is assigning herself as a female who prefers to explore the world alone. I've only read a couple entries so far, but one of them was titled "Five Great Reasons Why You Should Travel Solo", giving me an excellent start. Already I know that she identifies herself-- and other lone travelers-- as approachable, resourceful, strong, unfettered, and having more fun! I hope that I'll be able to find anecdotes from her travels in other posts so that I have evidence to back up her claims. I'm happy with the direction that my reasearch seems to be headed.
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Emily one thing I have been thinking is that you could use the aspect of travel that helps her seem freer, like if it is the seeing new places or getting there. Just throwing some stuff out there, hope it helps somehow.
ReplyDeleteAlright, blame me for taking so long to comment. Its been a long weekend. But I've been thinking about what you said on Thursday, and I like your idea for an essay. I can't really remember much, but I would like to see your draft too please. Send it to wheelj4@u.washington.edu please. All I can really say is to keep going off of that free spirited identity idea that I remember from your workshop, it sounded very interesting!
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