Our Supporters

The following companies have supported The Lost Girls with goods or services

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Adventure Racers ($100-$500)
Robert and Nadine Pressner	Bruce and April Baggett
Maureen Pressner and Bruce Kirk	Bruce and April Baggett

Weekend Warriors
($50 - $100)

• Evelyn Rubin

Day Trippers
($20 - $50)

• Stephanie Davis

Armchair Travelers

• Sara Corbett

Sponsorships
The journey of 30,000 miles may begin with a single step, but we couldn't complete it without your help. Here are three ways to keep The Lost Girls climbing, trekking and moving forward.

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Our Route

Boarding planes, trains, buses, boats and chicken trucks, we'll attempt to circumnavigate the globe, a yearlong journey that will cross five continents and more than a dozen countries. The following is the route we intend to follow, but as Lost Girls, we reserve the right to misplace the map, get turned around and of course, change our minds.

Our first stop....Peru, homeland of Incas, Andes and Pisco Sours. Jen's always had a secret desire to pet a llama (unfortunately, they're known to be spitters) and Holly and Amanda are looking foward to chewing on cocoa leaves to "ward off altitude sickness." Yah. One of our first stops is Cuzco, where we'll prep for our four-day long trek up the Inca Trail. After a near disasterous tumble off a cliff in Cinque Terre, we've have instituted our own hiker's rule of thumb: When climbing a mountain, you can gawk at the sweeping vistas or you can amble along the narrow trail, but you probably shouldn't do both that the same time. Just a thought.

Our first stop....Peru, homeland of Incas, Andes and Pisco Sours. Jen's always had a secret desire to pet a llama (unfortunately, they're known to be spitters) and Holly and Amanda are looking foward to chewing on cocoa leaves to "ward off altitude sickness." Yah. One of our first stops is Cuzco, where we'll prep for our four-day long trek up the Inca Trail. After a near disasterous tumble off a cliff in Cinque Terre, we've have instituted our own hiker's rule of thumb: When climbing a mountain, you can gawk at the sweeping vistas or you can amble along the narrow trail, but you probably shouldn't do both that the same time. Just a thought.

Our first stop....Peru, homeland of Incas, Andes and Pisco Sours. Jen's always had a secret desire to pet a llama (unfortunately, they're known to be spitters) and Holly and Amanda are looking foward to chewing on cocoa leaves to "ward off altitude sickness." Yah. One of our first stops is Cuzco, where we'll prep for our four-day long trek up the Inca Trail. After a near disasterous tumble off a cliff in Cinque Terre, we've have instituted our own hiker's rule of thumb: When climbing a mountain, you can gawk at the sweeping vistas or you can amble along the narrow trail, but you probably shouldn't do both that the same time. Just a thought.

Our first stop....Peru, homeland of Incas, Andes and Pisco Sours. Jen's always had a secret desire to pet a llama (unfortunately, they're known to be spitters) and Holly and Amanda are looking foward to chewing on cocoa leaves to "ward off altitude sickness." Yah. One of our first stops is Cuzco, where we'll prep for our four-day long trek up the Inca Trail. After a near disasterous tumble off a cliff in Cinque Terre, we've have instituted our own hiker's rule of thumb: When climbing a mountain, you can gawk at the sweeping vistas or you can amble along the narrow trail, but you probably shouldn't do both that the same time. Just a thought.

20 Reasons We Took Off

Since we've started planning this round-the-world journey, we keep getting the same question: Why? We couldn't come up with one good reason—so we came up with twenty. In no particular order, here are our ulterior motives for going nomad:

1. We'd rather wake up to the roar of the Amazon River than the screeching of an alarm clock.

2. Because fending off a drunken pervert in Central Park hardly constitutes as communing with the locals.

3. Hiking the subway stairs: 14 calories burned. Trekking the Inca Trail: 14,000.

4. We want to ban the phrases "in the loop," "per our conversation," and "out of the box" from our daily vocabulary.

5. Aussie's have walkabouts and Brit's take a gap year; isn't it time for Americans to break out their passports and get moving?

6. We'd rather get tan lines from lounging on the beach than worry lines from tackling endless to-do lists.

7. Have you ever seen a fat backpacker?

8. The real Wonders of the World can't be found on any map.

9. Gazing longingly at your "exotic locales" screensaver hardly compares to watching the sunset over the Serengeti or diving with the wildlife along The Great Barrier Reef.

10. The world is filled with yummy desserts just screaming for a taste test.

11. Because after six years of plugging into cell phones, blackberries and PDAs, we'd rather connect face-to-face with real people.

12. The phrases "burnout," "multi-tasking" and "quarter-life crisis" don't exist in most languages.

13. Natural disasters, poverty and illness have left billions in need worldwide. We want to lend three pairs of helping hands.

14. In 90 percent of the countries in the world, wine is cheaper than water.

15. Siestas. 'Nuf said.

16. The cost of a Starbuck's latte in the Big Apple will cover a week's lodging in Laos.

17. 'Cause we're suckers for guys with accents.

18. Cramming everything into a single backpack is the fastest way to simplify our lives.

19. As individuals, traveling is our greatest passion. Now that we've found our fellow Lost Girls, we'll never have to go it alone.

20. Sometimes you have to get lost in order to be found.

Our Story

It was in New York City, dead-of-winter 2004, when we—Amanda, Jen and Holly—found ourselves in the midst of a collective quarter life crisis. Sure, 20-something burnout may sound a tad to silly to anyone born before the advent of MTV, Atari or Guess jeans, but seven-day workweeks at stress-driven offices had taken their toll. Despite having creative gigs that fueled our passions, we were exhausted and frustrated that our careers had become our identities. Constantly linked to work via cell, text, blackberry and e-mail, we were starving for real connections with family, friends and significant others (who wants to date a woman already married to her job?).

It turns out, we weren't alone. Like millions of young women in our generation, we were plagued with doubts and fears about the paths we were choosing. Though 12-hour workdays left us little time for contemplation, we couldn’t quiet that inner voice asking: What exactly were we doing with our lives? Could we ultimately commit to one career, city and lifestyle (and man), when so many opportunities lie before us? On our own, with no parents, advisers or a syllabus to guide us, you could say that we were a little, well, Lost. Okay, very Lost. So before making the ultimate choice of which way to go as (gulp) adults, we decided to take a major detour, one we hoped might provide a little insight into these questions and just maybe, a road- map to our futures.

Kissing our jobs, boyfriends, apartments, families and our beloved Manhattan goodbye, we officially became "The Lost Girls," and started making plans for a yearlong, 35,000-mile journey around the globe. Loosely building an itinerary that begins in South America and crawls eastward through Africa, the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia and Australia, we plan to explore the cultures, mindsets and lifestyles of our international counterparts, getting to know thousands of strangers so we may better know ourselves.

We have no idea what the next year will hold—or where the future will lead us—but we can't wait to start the journey. The Lost Girls' trip kicks off on June 20, 2006. We hope that you'll stick with us every step of the way.