The Lost Girls Get Found
Nomadic Matt: What prompted you to travel the world together?
Amanda Presser: five years ago to leave my job ditching and New York to seemed the planet backpack a completely illogical decision. At the time I had my toe just get in the door in my dream job as a magazine editorial assistant. But there was always a part of me one that more singing grew and persistent, the longer and harder I-that worked repeatedly tried to warn all about me, how much I was missing by spending every night they (and many weekends!) Within a dark office while real life was outside the window.
I really thought Jen and Holly played only together when I told them to leave that I was considering and studying at a language school in South America to leave, and they voted for the adventure to come. But Jen and Holly had to leave their own personal reasons for wanting to New York, and they pushed us, the journey to expand a little bigger and more rewarding. I think at some point, we realized that this world trip was not only fueled a few wine holiday fantasy. We actually had a very rare and special opportunity before us: If you have two friends willing to leave their jobs, pack up their homes and put their relationship on hold around the world for a year pack, well then ... you do not question it. You go and only we.
Have you stay together all the time?
No. Each of us had some time on our own trips. Holly was the first to do it: you spent earning her yoga teacher training certificate a month in an ashram in India, while Jen and I explored the beaches of Goa. Then, when my family came Holly and me for a week riverboat trip in Myanmar, Jen decided back in Bangkok to stay and their fear challenging solo for a short period of travel (as it turned out, she loved it!). And I waited until the trip was "officially" done do my jaunt. Jen and Holly was in the United States almost exactly a year after we'd first made free from the States, but I felt that my personal journey would not be complete until I spent a month my own.
Do you feel that you have been changed by your trip?
I guess some things never change about yourself, but I think that emotionally, I'm forever changed. For the most part, I do not get so stressed by the curveballs that life throws at me and I'm much more comfortable with uncertainty. Even if I do not know exactly where life is headed, I have a sense of confidence, the work things. I think ever to become disoriented and road-eventually always get in a state of flux on where I needed go-gave me peace of mind. I also realize that there are other things in life that inspire me, and I'm good, except my career! I understand now that you do not have to travel in order to learn about themselves and to grow, but it is an amazing, intense way to take a crash course on the study of you!
you created your website and it turned into an inspiring place for female travelers. Have on that intention happen and are you happy it went this way? Not at all
. In fact, I was a little behind the curve when it came to blogging! Already in 06, before the trip, I assumed that a blog would just be a portal for family and friends to keep up with our adventures, so we would not have to write and send mass e-mails! I was thrilled that we could publish updates from anywhere, and so I spend to learn a few weeks HTML coding, before we left, and Jerry-rigged a Blogger template, to make it (some) look less generic! Jen and Holly agreed to join me on the way in deploying updates. At some point we realized that it might be fun to publish the stories of other female inspirational travels that we met, and so we started our first regular column, "Lost Girl of the Week." Because we do not have much time reporting and editing on the road, we invited these women to write their own stories directly and to share, and it was in this way that we got our first contributors.
Then after we got home, we all wondered, "Is that it? Should we close the blog, because our own Travelogues not share?" What we were there to be asked to go on, the E- mails we had received from so many young women (and men!) who told us that they "lost" and felt and were impressed by what we had done. Many thought up to its communication at work was to travel, and they wanted real, practical information on how to do it tactfully. And so we decided Lost Girls world in a community-run site that people are turning to delight to hold.
, it is in the United States is not totally acceptable (or at least encouraged), pick up and travel only in the interest of any self-exploration or real educational or without target set. We hope that the writing of the lost girl would in some ways, support for the idea of creating a give "American Gap Year", an idea whose time has officially arrived in this country. At no other point in our history young people (young women in particular) have presented with so many options, and have been so much opportunity to create the life we want.
Jen, Holly and I found that longer trip who we were as individuals has a unique opportunity to challenge us about our own regular life, a trip our values and explore exactly. What drove and upset us? Why did we get out of bed every day? As we learned from our year abroad, then it is totally humiliating and eyes open the way of the rest of the world to see lives and not just return the same person home as if you. Left The world formed us in a way we never expected.
What are your hopes for this book are? Are you looking to inspire people?
Our goal with the book was not the crazy misadventures of three city to share girls, and some light-hearted fish to create out of the water story, but to really dig into the fears and insecurities The are many 20 and 30 shared-olds who are starting down their future. Traveling many not be the right way for each person to gain insight about who they are, and to feel a little more at peace with their place in the world, but it was definitely that for us. We hope that the book may be the time and money travel budgeting one of the smartest investments will see by picking, reader, that it is not only possible to make a trip like ours do (or a somewhat limited version!), But, that they will ever make.
Why do you think your special trip history was made in a book?
we were told that the reason why our book sold (many many travel manuscripts were to be pitched that time in the wake of Eat, Pray, Love success!) Was that we had a unique spin on the traditional travel find memoirs managed. We were to meet three best friends and young professionals who would quit our jobs mid-career specific questions Quarter Life on the street. It felt a bit more time and unique to our editors as a single traveler in a particular country to visit, circulating at least 80 percent of the suggestions.
What do you plan next? Will you continue to focus on writing or your website?
Jen, Holly and I are all back to full-time positions. Instead of a staff to accept a job, but I work as a freelance web editor for Hearst to learn the digital skills that I need one) remain relevant in the publishing industry and b) continue to improve and expand Lost Girls world. Growing the site and promoting the Lost Girls our two main points are right now.
For more about Amanda, Jen and Holly, visit the website "The Lost Girls". You can get your copy of The Lost Girls book through this link. A portion of the proceeds from the sale will be donated to the Village Volunteer Butterfly Project, an educational scholarship program for young women in Kenya.
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