Megan Lyles Travel Writer

by Adrienne Wilson on

When really good travel blogs manage to remain secret to me, I get bummed wishing someone had called me sooner to say, “Hey, Adrienne you need to peep this right now!” No personal calls were ever received which leads me to wonder how many folks even know about the travel writing goodness of Megan Lyles? It really makes no huge difference that I didn’t follow Megan and her fiancé/photographer, Michael Simon, while they were blogging on the road. It just means I have a ton of catching up to do.

Back in the summer of 2005 Megan and Michael took off on a one-year long bus trip from Manhattan to the tip of South America. The trip has since been wrapped up and Megan and Michael are back in Manhattan, but the site is still up and there for your viewing pleasure. And I do mean it is a pleasure to check out. I read through some of the Mexico, Paraguay, and Uruguay stops not wanting to stop, but catching up is going to take a while. Before I departed I clicked on just one more plug while they were in North Carolina attending the Vans Warped tour. All I can say is Megan, where ever you are – I can totally relate.

Medellin: The Appeal of the Most Dangerous City on Earth

by Karen Walrond on

A few years ago, when my sister and I were both working as high powered, jet-setting executives (a state from which we’ve both recovered, thankfully), we were sitting talking about some of the places we’d visited for work. She’d just returned from a trip including several cities in South America. I asked her which she enjoyed the most.

“Caracas was pretty cool,” she said. “But you know what the most beautiful city in the world is?”

“Where?”

“Medellin,” she said, sighing. “It’s amazing.”

“Wait,” I said, not without considerable skepticism. “the drug capital?”

“The very one,” she replied. “it’s absolutely breathtaking.”

Apparently, my sister isn’t the only one to think so: Travelmag.co.uk is featuring an article on Medellin, Colombia, written by a first-time traveller. According to the piece, because of Medellin’s reputation, it is a city virtually untouched by outsiders — which gives it a particular charm, not the least of which is a citizenry eager to change its city’s image.

A destination to consider. If your curiosity gets the best of you, and you find yourself looking into tickets, be sure to note the travel tips at the end of the article.

[Photo: Flickr | Michael Joseph Goldstein… etc.]