Video & Photo Gallery

Here's a random sampling of our photos so far....we know we need to label them and promise to do it soon!





































August 2006: Surfing the Sand Dunes in Huacachina, Peru



May 2006: Our pre-trip NYC countdown!

<-----Our last trip to Tasti-d-Lite...a New York institution on par with Junior's Cheesecake and the Cosmopolitan, but with only 10 skinny calories per ounce! Amanda indulges in a LG favorite: Milky Way with chocolate sprinkles, to be eaten on the run.



Ahhh....pedicure! We got ours whenever possible at Cindy's Nails on the Upper West Side. Here, Jen prepares for one of our last big nights on the town by get her toes painted with Opi's "It Now or Never" polish. ---->







<-----Holly getting "fluffed" at our first Lost Girls photo shoot. We had real photographers and props and a makeup artist and everything!



Jen says farewell to her fabulous VH1 coworkers (Courtney and Catherine, from left) at the Lost Girls Bon Voyage Party.
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<-----Jen and Amanda score mad going-away-for-a-year loot, all wrapped up in internationally appropriate paper. Inside: a kick ass travel journal, plus photos, from roomie Beth.

Holly (bless her cotton socks!) helps Jen and Amanda take nine enormous boxes of stuff eight city blocks to a UPS Store...using nothing more than a few furniture dollies. We owe you one, sister.----->

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Holly, Jen & Amanda

Amanda got bitten by the travel bug at age nine, when she traveled with her family around the United States in a van nicknamed "The Blue Moose."

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Holly has already lapped the globe once by boat, but can't wait to take a new route by land with her best friends. Read her bio at www.hollycassandra.com.

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Jen has been dreaming of Africa since she watched The Flame Trees of Thika on PBS as a little girl. Since then, her longing for exotic lands has expanded to include South America and Southeast Asia.

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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.

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