The Blogger's Choice Awards are up and running and the best travel blog category's showing up a few weird and wonderful blogs. You might remember the Lost Girls who have their RTW journey blogged in (financial) detail: they're running in the top 5 at the moment, as is the Pickled Eel--a random collection of posts from a middle-aged Aussie who's done a pack of traveling with the air force and the foreign affairs wing of the government.
But right at the front of the pack now in this zany list of amateur-blogs-turned-slightly-famous is a blog from a youth hostel in Buenos Aires. It goes way beyond simple promotion for a hostel and patchily into a tourist guide for BA: half in English, half in Spanish with a dash of tango and skydiving thrown in.
We will be rooting for any of our travel blog stars that make the cut.
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Dreaming of a round the world trip and a year off from your normal life? Plenty of us think it's just not affordable, but let the Lost Girls convince you otherwise.
Their blog follows the round-the-world journey of three twenty-something American gals who decided a year spent bungee-jumping in New Zealand, volunteering in Kenya and learning yoga in India was better than sitting around at home. Journey nearly over, one of the girls (with a spreadsheet addiction) has calculated the budget of their trip. All expenses included, their year away came up to $18,000 per person: about the same as the rent they would've paid if they'd stayed home in NYC.
The Lost Girls also have a bunch of how-to posts, explaining how they chose their route, how they stay in touch and (the all important) how they gave notice to their bosses. Basically everything you need to know when you want to throw it all in and hit the road.
[Photo: The Lost Girls]
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