During the course of The Lost Girls» year - long adventure around the world, Amanda, Holly and I tallied numerous brag - worthy adventures (hiking the Inca Trail; sandboarding down mountain - sized dunes; rafting over a 21 foot waterfall), unique cultural experiences (capoeira classes in a world - renowned Mestre Bimba academy; initiation into the Kenyan Maasai tribe; a homestay in a Hmong village) and a few near - misses to keep things interesting (getting stranded in Peruvian desert / hitchhiking a ride from a priest in a minivan;
foiling the dastardly
attempts of bag - slashers in Vietnam and Thailand; breaking embassy records for
successfully begging for last minute visas).