The Solo Traveller
Your independence, passion, and lifelong memories.
Learning and Creativity
Learning and creativity deeply enrich solo travel by opening new ways of seeing, thinking, and engaging with the world. They sharpen and enhance lived experiences, shaping how moments – on the road, in planning, or upon reflection – transform our horizons with fresh insight and understanding.
Author, travel memoirist, and writing teacher Jillian Schedneck reflects on the craft of travel memoir – from shaping lived experience into narrative, to balancing scene and meaning, and why solo travel so often provides the raw material for lasting, transformative stories.
By Geoffrey Williams | December 2025
The expansion of HX Expeditions’ award-winning Beyond Antarctica program to the Arctic in 2026, will offer new pre-departure learning courses for travellers to strengthen the connections between exploration and education, and deepen our understanding of the world’s polar regions.