Chris has been one of Lost to Live’s guest author contributors since 2018 and has shared a number of her travel experiences, travel tips, and amazing photos with us as a result of her own travels. Once part of the legal field, Chris left her job to embark on a backpacking trip. In her words…
Stephanie, from the United States, never had the opportunity to travel while growing up. In our interview she says, “I remember thinking ‘Man, I sure would love to go to Hawaii’.” When she began high school and college, she was finally presented with opportunities to travel. For her honeymoon, she and her new husband traveled…
Have you ever considered moving outside of your home country? These 2 travelers have done just that. Laura and Trever, from the United States, live “la pura vida” (the pure life) in the beautiful and green country of Costa Rica. Going on 4+ years now they enjoy their own rental home, yard with a garden,…
Welcome to our first two-part series on someone I believe to be a very inspirational traveler. In this week’s article we will see how she got her start in experiencing other cultures, then check back in next week for details on her most recent and eye-opening trip to Africa. Beverly Peterson’s international experiences began when…
Beverly Peterson recently returned home from a 3-week humanitarian aid trip to Uganda, Ethiopia and Swaziland. This trip included time serving in a medical clinic removing Jiggers from childrens’ feet, volunteering at a school, gathering and taking hygiene kits to the places they visited, and so much more. During my conversation with Beverly, I asked…
Elisha Baker recently traveled outside her home country for her first extended stay last summer 2017. At the time, Ben and I were living in Cozumel, Mexico and she came to join us for a week. Prior to this trip to Mexico, Elisha had visited Mexico on a day trip over the border. “I wanted…
Lorna Kuehn, from the United States, began traveling outside of her home country at the age of 45 and is now going on 5 years of visiting new countries and experiencing new cultures. Her first trip abroad was to Italy back in 2015. She has now been back to Italy twice, experienced Austria, France, Germany,…
At the age of 20, Melissa participated in a month-long art history study abroad course in Europe “It was to immerse ourselves in religious history and art history because they are so closely tied together. So, in these places we were going to see a lot of museums, a lot of cathedrals and basilicas, and…
Jeremy’s story of how he began traveling is really special to me. Jeremy married into my family during the time that Ben and I had decided to move to France so I could study international business there. When I first met him, he was sure we weren’t going to like it, and according to him,…
Ryan began traveling with his parents as a kid throughout the United States. He says “It instilled this new curiosity in me. It’s always just been in my head that I was going to go far away from home. I was prepping for it all throughout high school, so when I finally got the chance,…