What on earth are you talking about? Where do men get these ridiculous ideas about what women are thinking? As if we’re all harbouring some weird fantasy about meeting a random stranger just because we happen to be traveling alone. You’re the one harbouring the fantasy dude.

Traveling and shopping for novelties - like pb+j, amirite?
The biological fact is that lots of women are just as curious, delightfully amoral and sexually promiscuous as many men.
We now have effective pre-exposure prophylaxis (which now prevents HIV), almost-foolproof contraception (IUD) and morning-after pills. Bold, confident women, especially in the developed world, have duly embraced this new reality and seized on the advantages.
Obviously not the case in many puritan cultures, but the people who are happy in such places are mostly puritans, busybodies and prudes. Not a fan.

Not all women are lame-brains who let themselves get programmed into finding big muscles attractive.

There are actually a lot of who are attracted to THIN guys.

On my last flight this cute English girl chatted me up and was in Vancouver for 3 weeks for vacation. She gave me her number. I called her up and we hooked up. I just think it has something to do with the fact of time. With only a short period of time everything is accelerated.

the most obvious fact is that she wasn't a Vancouver area woman.

No, I'm not imagining anything. Just because you feel this doesn't apply to you doesn't mean it's the same for all women. I guess I should have said they make it obvious I should speak to them or they DO speak to me. I wrote this directly after a flight where it was explicit to the point of ridiculousness. But I took a flight a week ago where it was a gay dude hitting on me. So it isn't ALL women or ONLY women but it is SOME women.

"Where do men get these ridiculous ideas about what women are thinking?"

I'm guessing right here since most posts by women are basically telling all men how to breath and onwards..

I've read countless times here that women can be met anywhere and everywhere in Vancouver under the right circumstances.

No creepers, no losers, no short guys, no bald guys, no poor guys, just the other guys who happen to be over six feet tall and loaded but nobody else otherwise it's harassment and posted online for further regocnition to justify an otherwise uneventful life that is past it's prime.

I’m a girl that frequently travels solo and I can’t say I go out of my way to get anyone’s attention, but I will totally flirt with more people than I would on the home turf. I don’t do hookups, but I think flirting is a healthy self-esteem improving mood booster (obviously if both parties are into it), so why not?

And yes, not every woman is dreaming of a six-pack dude. I see a six pack, I think this gentleman is going to judge me every time I have a slice of cheesecake. No thanks. If you’re at a reasonably healthy body weight you’re probably attractive to more people than you think. (Plus, since when is 5’11 short?)

Another lady. I agree with you on every point. I also get more attention from men than I normally do when I travel. I'm attractive but don't get a lot of attention on the regular. Must be for the same reasons OP mentioned: the mystery, and the fact that there's little risk of anything actually happening.

As a short and petite lady, I prefer someone proportional in height. I don't understand why men think that we all want giants with huge muscles. Bodybuilders look unnatural to me, kind of like women who look "plastic." I like healthy, natural looking, down-to-earth men who don't overdress. I find a guy in jeans or joggers sexier than someone who follows a trend (hipster or metrosexual). Someone who's not trying too hard. Conventional business attire is good. These confessions of women complaining that men don't dress well enough for dates just seem fake.

Dear OP, please acquire some self-worth. I don't know who hurt you in the past, or how bad your upbringing was. Whatever it was, you are more than that, and you are worthy of attention. Just because you felt passed over by some women does not mean that all women will reject you. The experience that you describe is clear proof that you are not as unattractive as you believe yourself to be. Perhaps you have been hurt too much and too often to see how positive this experience is. This sort of thing happens to people who were abused by their parents to the extent that they do not recognize what love is.

Men complain that women do not approach them. As we see here, when women do approach, some men still complain. Can't win either way.