Lost Girl of the Week: Courtney Scott

When Amanda, Holly and I quit our jobs to travel around the globe, we idealistically imagined that the trip would drastically change our lives, hurdling epiphany after epiphany into our paths until we were completely enlightened beings. As you can guess, it didn’t exactly work out that way. ...

March 6th, 2008 | Blogging Your Trip, Lost Girl of the Week, New York City, Quitting & Career Management, Travel Philosophy, Websites and Blogs, Working Abroad | Read More

Lost with a Boyfriend: Arriving in Quito

After we waited at the carousel in the Quito Airport for nearly a half hour and not spotting out bags, Jeff and I were convinced the airline had lost our luggage. Eventually we spotted them, our two sad little suitcases sitting all alone (just waiting to be snatched) at another carousel several feet...

February 29th, 2008 | City Travel, Couples Travel, Dispatches from the Road, Ecuador, Food & Wine | Read More

Lost with a Boyfriend: Ecuador or Bust!

LG’s Law of Travel #483: The better prepared you attempt to be for your journey, the more egregiously your best-laid plans will veer off course. Jen, Holly and I pretty much relied on dumb luck, and the occasional kindness of embassy officials,to get us from point A to B during our year around...

February 28th, 2008 | Air, Couples Travel, Dispatches from the Road, Ecuador, Leaving & Coming Home | Read More

Lost with a Boyfriend: A Fling to Ecuador

I have a confession to make about the marathon journey Jen, Hol and I took around the planet last year. By the time we’d had reached the end of the trip (and I’d completed an extra month of exploring Australia on my own), my enthusiasm for backpacking had fizzled to the point of almost total...

February 27th, 2008 | Air, Backpacking & Trekking, Couples Travel, Ecuador | Read More

Why I Got Lost: Doing Business in Italy

When New Yorker Chris Caruana, 23, wrote to tell us that he’d be leaving the city next month to get his MBA in Rome, we were psyched for him–and more than a little curious. What prompted this all-American guy to forgo the ivy-draped business school experience in the US to learn macroeconomics...

February 13th, 2008 | Blogging Your Trip, Departments, Italy, Lost Boys, Websites and Blogs, Working Abroad | Read More

Holly Corbett Has No Regrets

People seriously crack me up: A certain New York gossip rag wrongly quoted me as saying that travel changed my life for the worse. Ha! As if I’d ever look back at a year spent hiking the Inca Trail in Peru, scuba diving in Thailand, and biking through wineries in New Zealand as a mistake and think,...

February 8th, 2008 | Extras, LG Press & Media, Lost Girls RTW Adventure, Travel Philosophy | Read More

Blogs we Love: Traveling with Kids

Okay forgive us for being total chicks here, but how friggin’ cute is this travel blog? The posts on Traveling with Elliot are pretty standards family-on-a-trip stuff, but the photos are so adorable that we haven’t actually been doing much reading. In the past year, little Elliot has visited...

January 31st, 2008 | Blogging Your Trip, Family & Kid Travel, Lost Girls RTW Adventure, Websites and Blogs | Read More

La Dolce Vita!

No wonder Italians coined the phrase, “the sweet life:” They have plenty of time to pursue it with a whopping 28 paid vacation days plus 18 paid holidays (that’s more than nine weeks off a year!). Compare that to the measly 14 days American companies tend to offer. The law of the European...

January 10th, 2008 | Extras, Ideas, Lost Girls RTW Adventure, Travel Philosophy, Working Abroad | Read More

Dispatches from the Road: The Surreal Life in Beijing

Does traveling make you feel like you’re floating around on another planet–or more grounded on Earth than ever? That’s the question raised by this week’s Dispatches contributor, Maria Colina. She’s been keeping her blog at www.lavacheespagnole.com since 2005 and used it...

December 22nd, 2007 | China, Dispatches from the Road | Read More

My no-laptop diet

So, I’ve been wrestling with whether or not to go back and share some of the more interesting/scary/annoying/joyous aspects of my last two and a half weeks of solo travel in Australia. Since I feel like I can’t “return home” online without sharing what happened at the very end,...

October 6th, 2007 | Australia, Blogging Your Trip, Lost Girls RTW Adventure, Solo Travel | Read More