AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 10 Jul 2007 | Views [529]
Jen: After spending two full days lapping up the luxury and relaxing atmosphere at The Golden Door Spa, I had almost forgotten about the fact that I’d kinda, sorta damaged our van just a teensy, weensy bit. That was until we were forced to drag ... Read more >
Tags: i should have known better!, ambassador van
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 8 Jul 2007 | Views [282] | Comments [1]
Jen: All you loyal readers out there can attest to the fact that unbelievable luck seems to follow in Holly, Amanda and my footsteps throughout our round-the-world journey. For those of you just tuning in to our blog, allow me to recap. During our ... Read more >
Tags: i should have known better!, ambassador van
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 5 Jul 2007 | Views [542]
HCC: There’s a lot more to Oz than the sunburned outback and endless beaches. When my fellow Lost Girls and I heard about the rolling vineyards, gourmet restaurants and relaxing spas that were to be found in Hunter Valley, we refilled the oil in ... Read more >
Tags: sightseeing, ambassador van
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 2 Jul 2007 | Views [1944]
ADP: Last week, we learned that the Sydney Opera House just received official recognition as one of the most fabulous places on the planet, earning a coveted spot on the UNESCO World Heritage List (an honor it shares with such international treasures ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 30 Jun 2007 | Views [910]
ADP: Even before Jen, Holly and I had set foot on Australian soil, we figured we had a pretty solid grasp on life "Down Under." Thanks to some quality American television shows, classic 80s movies and even a few cool advertising campaigns, ... Read more >
Tags: beaches & sunshine, ambassador van
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 28 Jun 2007 | Views [446] | Comments [1]
Meals & Snacks, Intra-Country Travel, Entertainment & Extras and Miscellaneous. Plus Bonus Features! Jen: OK, faithful budget followers, it’s trivia time on www.lostgirlsworld.com… What do The Lord of the Rings, ... Read more >
Tags: Budgets & money
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 24 Jun 2007 | Views [529]
Flights, Travel Gear, Visas, Vaccines and Acccommodations Jen: I hope all you readers out there enjoyed Part 1 of The Lost Girls RTW Budget series, which I posted a few days ago. If you’ve been waiting with bated breath for Part 2 (as ... Read more >
Tags: Budgets & money
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 20 Jun 2007 | Views [280]
When it comes to The Lost Girls’ RTW trip, there are definitely certain questions that tend to pop up time and time again from family, friends, fellow travel enthusiasts and, well, pretty much everyone. Are the countries we’re visiting safe? (Statistically ... Read more >
Tags: Budgets & money
AUSTRALIA | Friday, 15 Jun 2007 | Views [276] | Comments [1]
We have some fun news: Budget Travel magazine's annual special issue, Girlfriend Getaways (on newsstands this summer), thought we were quirky enough to include in their publication. They asked us some questions, and, as usual, we had no problem talking ... Read more >
Tags: Philosophy of travel
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 7 Jun 2007 | Views [218]
Over the past few months, our fellow backpackers have sent us a ton of questions concerning all aspects of backpacking, vagabonding and round-the-world travel (as if we know more than the next Lost Girl!). Well, we're hardly experts but we figured ... Read more >
Tags: Travel Tips
AUSTRALIA | Friday, 25 May 2007 | Views [755] | Comments [4]
Jen: It was a beautiful, sunny morning in Sydney and Amanda, Holly and I were spending it in typical fashion - - a teensy bit hung over from the night before and running late, OK really late, for our scheduled activity du jour. Normally, we were ... Read more >
Tags: adventures, ambassador van
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 23 May 2007 | Views [243]
HCC: Marshmallows + cheap wine + your best girlfriends= recipe for the perfect camping trip. After constructing a kick ass campfire (if we do say so ourselves), we settled into our foldout chairs with the mission of toasting the perfect marshmallow ... Read more >
Tags: the great outdoors, ambassador van
AUSTRALIA | Friday, 18 May 2007 | Views [250] | Comments [1]
HCC: Since the Lost Girls scored an awesome camper van, we decided to take it—where else?—camping. Our premiere girlfriends getaway in the Blue Monster, as we affectionately named it, takes place in Barrington Tops National Park. I chose our destination ... Read more >
Tags: the great outdoors, ambassador van
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 10 May 2007 | Views [735]
ADP: I should probably be more embarrassed to admit this, but during the six years I held both a valid driver’s licences and a working vehicle (affectionately named White Fire, in case you care), I never actually checked, changed or gave more than ... Read more >
Tags: on the road, ambassador van
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 3 May 2007 | Views [269]
HCC: After living in the concrete jungle of New York City, the girls and I have encoutered wild life ranging from rats to cockroaches to drunken men. So when we heard that the hazy Blue Mountains were home to critters of a different kind—kangaroos—we ... Read more >
Tags: adventures, ambassador van
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 1 May 2007 | Views [1061] | Comments [2]
HCC: A Lost Girl’s favorite way to see a new place is on foot, so the famous Coastal Walk from Bondi to Bronte Beach was just our speed. After reading about the five-kilometer, two-hour trail in our trusty Lonely Planet, we laced up our sneakers and ... Read more >
Tags: beaches & sunshine, ambassador van
AUSTRALIA | Friday, 27 Apr 2007 | Views [275]
We'll admit it: As typical American's we had no idea what the heck Anzac Day was when we arrived in Australia two weeks ago. But by doing a little online research , we learned that ANZAC Day - 25 April - marks the anniversary of the first major military ... Read more >
Tags: party time, ambassador van
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 26 Apr 2007 | Views [443]
Are you kidding us?! We still can't believe that World Nomads is actually trusting us take possession of their freakishly tall, psychadelically decorated Amabassador Van. Its not that we're not responsible (totally trustworthy, we promise!)...its ... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles, trains & automobiles, ambassador van
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 22 Apr 2007 | Views [792]
ADP: When the weather gods deliver a day as brilliant as the one we had yesterday in Sydney , it would be foolish not to spring out of bed and make the most of it. Well, these Ambassador Girls don’t exactly “spring,” but we did manage to ... Read more >
Tags: sightseeing, ambassador van
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 21 Apr 2007 | Views [697]
We—Holly, Jen and Amanda—have officially taken over as The World Nomads Ambassadors , a fabulous title that comes with more than a few precious perks. Not only have we snagged an unbelievable set of wheels (a totally pimped-out camper van emblazoned ... Read more >
Tags: on the road, ambassador van
NEW ZEALAND | Friday, 20 Apr 2007 | Views [474]
While New Zealand’s North Island plays host to the bulk of its population, many people believe that its Southern sister provides far more in the way of stunning natural settings, atmospheric small towns and brag-worthy adventure activities. Amused ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
NEW ZEALAND | Friday, 20 Apr 2007 | Views [497]
Having alighted in a fantastically picturesque city where the streets were spotless, the residents spoke our language and we could indulge in the creature comfort we’d abandoned nine months ago (we now consider drinking water from the tap to be a ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
NEW ZEALAND | Thursday, 19 Apr 2007 | Views [215]
Casually mention to a Kiwi that you’re spending more than a night in Auckland (or just mention that you find the city charming) and 9 out of 10 will stop what they’re doing and stare at you in anticipation of some sort of punchline. ... Read more >
Tags: Friends
INDONESIA | Tuesday, 17 Apr 2007 | Views [1532] | Comments [1]
So I know it’s a bit lame to steal the Cover Girl cosmetics tagline for the title of my blog, but honestly, it’s the perfect way to describe Indonesia’s famous hedonist hotspot. To proof it, I’ll break it down for you one word at a time! Easy: ... Read more >
Tags: Beaches & sunshine
CAMBODIA | Saturday, 14 Apr 2007 | Views [222] | Comments [1]
HCC: We interrupt your usual broadcast of travel follies, restaurant picks and sporting adventures for a more serious topic we felt important to include in this here record of our around-the-world trip. Due to the graphic content, parental discretion ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
VIETNAM | Thursday, 12 Apr 2007 | Views [437]
HCC: I never thought I’d travel halfway around the world to spend a Sunday night watching Sex in the City and ordering take out. When our new twenty-three year old French friend, Emmanuel (we met him on the train back from Sapa), invited us to his home ... Read more >
Tags: Friends
VIETNAM | Wednesday, 4 Apr 2007 | Views [511]
After spending several days pounding the pavement for essential cold weather attire, haggling hard core for souvenirs, playing endless rounds of “Frogger” with gangs of cyclo drivers and wading through the maze of overcrowded side streets in Hanoi’s bustling ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
VIETNAM | Wednesday, 28 Mar 2007 | Views [604]
ADP: When Holly first visited Saigon, Vietnam in 1999 (during a post-collegiate voyage with Semester at Sea), she didn’t have the funds to take an extra excursion north to the country’s capital and the nearby regions of Sapa and Ha Long Bay. Fellow ... Read more >
Tags: Scams & Robberies
THAILAND | Friday, 23 Mar 2007 | Views [379]
ADP: New Yorkers tend to assume (or more aptly, believe with a deep, zealot-like conviction) that there’s no big city on earth that’s as funky, hip and prodigious as the one they call home. And, having spent most of my twenties falling in love with ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
THAILAND | Wednesday, 21 Mar 2007 | Views [518] | Comments [3]
Although it probably didn’t seem like it from my previous blog entry, Amanda and I actually didn’t spend our entire time in Ko Pha-Ngan sipping buckets. In between the half moon, New Year’s Eve and full moon parties, the rest of our time was spent exploring ... Read more >
Tags: Beaches & sunshine
THAILAND | Wednesday, 14 Mar 2007 | Views [598]
When it comes to certain famous cities around the world, most people tend to paint a romanticized picture in their heads about the specific type of experience they’ll have. You know, like dancing ‘til dawn in the streets of Rio with elaborately beaded ... Read more >
Tags: Party time
THAILAND | Wednesday, 7 Mar 2007 | Views [1036]
ADP: Long before there was a Sex in the City tour highlighting Carrie Bradshaw’s favorite cosmo-sipping spots and a DaVinci Code tour tracing Robert Langdon’s quest for the Holy Grail, backpackers were following the footsteps of their own unlikely ... Read more >
Tags: Party time
THAILAND | Wednesday, 28 Feb 2007 | Views [5386] | Comments [1]
Nearly every backpacker we’d spoken with in Thailand vehemently recommended we skip Phuket in favor of one of the islands that hadn’t been choked to death by concrete and commercialism. Unfortunately, having not done enough advanced word-of-mouth research, ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
LAOS | Wednesday, 14 Feb 2007 | Views [315]
ADP: After experiencing life at a languorous pace for nearly two weeks in Laos, Jen and I procrastinated as long as we could in booking the taxis, tuk-tuks, buses and plane flights we’d need to meet up with our friend Beth several hundred miles south ... Read more >
Tags: Misadventures
LAOS | Wednesday, 7 Feb 2007 | Views [436] | Comments [1]
"Oh My God! This is the one where Ross and Rachel first get together. I love this episode,” we heard an overly-perky blonde exclaim from across the crowded restaurant. Hmm! Very interesting! This wasn’t the sort of thing we'd expect to hear in ... Read more >
Tags: Relaxation
LAOS | Wednesday, 31 Jan 2007 | Views [432]
After Jen and I melted into rosemary and lemongrass-scented puddles at the forest temple (called Wat Sok Pa Luang ), I decided that I had to meet the pleasure-loving mind behind the herbal-infused steam baths and tropical group massage sessions. I ... Read more >
Tags: People
LAOS | Thursday, 25 Jan 2007 | Views [824] | Comments [1]
While there are some drawbacks to following the backpacker trail - - competing for the same Lonely Planet-recommended hostels, squeezing onto over-crowded buses and trains and being constantly reminded just how much Bush sucks (for the love of God, ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
INDIA | Friday, 19 Jan 2007 | Views [562]
ADP: Until now, we’d spent weeks struggling to keep pace with frenetic, chaotic, religion-centric, sanitarily challenged, confusing, stimulating and draining India. But here in Goa, we finally had a chance to dig our heels in the copper-colored sand, ... Read more >
Tags: People
INDIA | Sunday, 14 Jan 2007 | Views [630]
ADP: After spending nearly a week purging our bodies, minds and auras of all sorts of impurities at the Sivinanda Ashram in Southern India (who knew onions, sugar, alcohol, garlic and salt were so evil, anyway?) Jen and I decided that it was high time ... Read more >
Tags: People
INDIA | Sunday, 7 Jan 2007 | Views [331] | Comments [1]
ADP: While it’s theoretically possible to snag a cheap fare from Delhi to Chennai on one of India’s new low cost carriers, getting from A to B in the subcontinent (especially on a backpacker budget) usually means traveling by train. And when cities and ... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
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