Owning pets—or, to be more accurate, their owning me—means that while I’m able to enjoy trips and vacations, I will definitely not be taking off to go around the world anytime soon. That doesn’t mean I can’t live vicariously through The Lost Girls, however!
The Lost Girls are three fresh young ladies from New York who decided to shuck off their business suits, ditch their nine-to-fives, and spend a year going around the world. They began their journey in January 2006, though now it looks like they might end up taking up more than the intended one year. But hey, one can’t live life to a schedule after all, can one?
I haven’t caught up on all their posts yet—there’s such a lot!—but I do enjoy their Trip Planning links, which are available on the sidebar to the right of their website. Among other things, they explain how they paid for their trips and reveal what they packed. Between you and me, I can’t wait for them to update the section that tells how they gave their employers notice!
Another favorite section is the top 20 reasons they took off and embarked on this adventure. Partly funny, partly thoughtful, this list definitely rules, not least because it reasons that “fending off a drunken pervert in Central Park hardly constitutes as communing with the locals.”
If you’re interested in embarking on your own worldwide sojourn, give the Lost Girls a read. As these fine ladies put it, “Sometimes you have to get lost in order to be found.”
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