KENYA | Tuesday, 5 Dec 2006 | Views [9775] | Comments [2]
ADP: As someone who managed to learn depressively little about international geography during my formative years, I barely knew that Kenya had a coastline, let alone a gleaming ribbon of icing white sand and its own rhinestone speckled stretch of Indian ... Read more >
Tags: People
KENYA | Monday, 4 Dec 2006 | Views [1065]
While we thought the safari would be the highlight of our brief visit to the land of the Maasai, we soon discovered that our most exciting adventure had yet to come. Since we only had one more day to spend with Emmanuel before heading back to Nairobi, ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
KENYA | Saturday, 2 Dec 2006 | Views [872]
If you really know The Lost Girls, you know that our favorite activity isn't trekking up Andean mountains, tracking wild African animals, clubbing our way through the capital cities or even sleeping until we're roused from dreamland by endless construction/farting ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
KENYA | Monday, 27 Nov 2006 | Views [822]
ADP: Happy thanksgiving Weekend! (Yes, I know its Monday but you've got a little turkey casserole left in the tupperware at home, right?) As you might have noticed, the girls and I took a little hiatus from blogging and used the time off to ponder what ... Read more >
Tags: Friends
KENYA | Tuesday, 21 Nov 2006 | Views [1063]
Like most of our fellow Village Volunteers, Amanda, Holly and I jumped at the chance to sign up for an affordable 1-day safari organized by one of the in-country coordinators, and a member of the Maasai tribe, Emmanuel. Not only would we be guided through ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
KENYA | Monday, 13 Nov 2006 | Views [779]
ADP: On the last night of our incredible volunteer experience at Pathfinder Academy in Kenya, the pre-teen girls we’d been working with for nearly a month surprised us by singing personal farewells at a candlelight dinner. We’d grown to love these little ... Read more >
Tags: Friends
KENYA | Thursday, 2 Nov 2006 | Views [1246]
After Sister Freda gave us a tour of her rural clinic, she led us past her own small house (one of the few I’d seen with running water and a western-style toilet) to one of most enchanting parts of her property: the tropical fruit grove.
Pushing past ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
KENYA | Thursday, 2 Nov 2006 | Views [1784] | Comments [2]
I found love at an unexpected place: Sister Freda’s Hospital outside of Kitale, Kenya. Sister Freda is a native Kenyan, mother of four and registered nurse. She constructed a clinic in this rural area to help the masses of displaced tribe members who ... Read more >
Tags: Philosophy of travel
KENYA | Thursday, 2 Nov 2006 | Views [2035] | Comments [1]
When you’re an obvious stranger in a strange land, or in our case, a bustling pastoral community in Western Kenya, it’s bound to attract some attention – particularly if you’re of the paler skinned variety as we are. Every time we venture outside the ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | Monday, 23 Oct 2006 | Views [890]
ADP: As we've traveled, my fellow Lost Girls and I have found that its infinitely more interesting to learn about the hidden corners of a new city from the people who know it best (the locals!) rather than some stuffy guidebook. We're hoping that you, ... Read more >
Tags: The Planning Phase
KENYA | Monday, 23 Oct 2006 | Views [1626] | Comments [1]
When the girls and I first began to discuss the itinerary for our year around the world, there were certain locations that each of us just had to visit and specific goals we felt compelled to achieve. For Amanda, it was perfecting her Spanish in Peru;... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
INDIA | Monday, 23 Oct 2006 | Views [883]
HCC: The Lost Girls have been in northern India for just four days, and have already witnessed our first traffic accident. Frankly, we’re surprised we didn’t see a collision sooner, given the fact that mopeds, trucks, cabs, cows and elephants all share ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
INDIA | Monday, 23 Oct 2006 | Views [763] | Comments [1]
HCC: When our tour guide, Sunil, told us riding an elephant was believed to be able to change my luck, I was all game. After all, For Me magazine, where my monthly column chronicling my on-the-road adventures was scheduled to appear, had closed after ... Read more >
Tags: Philosophy of travel
INDIA | Monday, 23 Oct 2006 | Views [951]
ADP: After a whirlwind tour of Rio de Janeiro and Salvador, Brazil, the girls and I took a short hiatus in New York City to stock up on supplies, hang with friends and otherwise fortify ourselves for the next leg of the journey.
We arrived in New ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
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BRAZIL | Tuesday, 19 Sep 2006 | Views [770]
When spending time in Brazil, there are a few unofficial rules and must dos, such as: Make like a local and hit the beach in a skimpy bikini or speedo; initiate impromptu caipirinha happy hours any time during the day; find a reputable capoeira school ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
BRAZIL | Tuesday, 19 Sep 2006 | Views [706]
Brazilians are fitness fanatics. Besides typical activities such as jogging and biking, you’ll find beach-goers playing soccer, volleyball or foot-volley (where you only touch the ball with your feet or your head). To break out of a workout rut, the ... Read more >
Tags: Adrenaline
BRAZIL | Tuesday, 19 Sep 2006 | Views [3190] | Comments [2]
Shortly after arriving to Mellow Yellow, we were repeatedly asked the same question by our fellow hostel mates. Actually it was more like an assumed statement. “Of course you’re going to the Favela Funk party?” The favela whata? Wasn’t that some sort ... Read more >
Tags: Party time
BRAZIL | Tuesday, 19 Sep 2006 | Views [1335] | Comments [1]
Most of the time on trips like ours, bad luck and bumps in the road are simply a matter of chance. But sometimes life will throw out so many signs pointing in one direction, and for better or worse, we’d be fools not to follow them. Such was the case ... Read more >
Tags: Misadventures
PERU | Saturday, 16 Sep 2006 | Views [1637]
When we first nominated Peru to be the inaugural country on our big jaunt around the world, there was one thing we all agreed on – exploring the jungle was non-negotiable! Sure, we’d all been in rainforests before in countries like Costa Rica, Belize ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
PERU | Friday, 15 Sep 2006 | Views [863]
Jen, Holly and I had stayed longer in Cuzco, Peru than almost any other gringo we'd met--nearly three weeks--and I was starting to feel like we'd simply relocated to a new town. It was time to journey on. We decided to brave the sub-zero winter temperatures ... Read more >
Tags: I should have known better!
PERU | Thursday, 14 Sep 2006 | Views [737] | Comments [1]
In a post earlier this month, we wrote about how the angel-faced children of Peru had the power to melt both our hearts and our resolve: Quite often Hol, Jen and I often would save our spare change just so we could distribute it among the palms of little ... Read more >
Tags: People
PERU | Thursday, 14 Sep 2006 | Views [750]
Swap your typical cocktail for a Pisco Sour, Peru’s national drink, with this recipe from the Miraflores Park Hotel in Lima, Peru: • 3 ounces pisco, available at most liquor stores (any type of grape brandy works as a substitution) • ¾ ounce juice from ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
PERU | Friday, 8 Sep 2006 | Views [1114]
Spotting scarlet Macaws in the Amazon and watching the sun rise over Machu Picchu may be the stuff of adventure travel fantasies, but you haven’t really lived (or perhaps, appreciated living) until you’ve had 220 Volts of electricity running through ... Read more >
Tags: I should have known better!
PERU | Monday, 28 Aug 2006 | Views [4119] | Comments [1]
The Lost Girls are in love with Huacachina, a desert oasis town on
Peru’s southern coast. What makes it so special? Besides being a
backpacker’s haven (we live to mingle), it’s also the sand-boarding
capital of the world. We
first heard of the ... Read more >
Tags: Adrenaline
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