Lisa Lubin's Page

Name:

Lisa Lubin - llworldtour.com

Location:

Chicago

Your Blog/Website:

http://www.llworldtour.com

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Type of Blogger

Independent Blogger

The Destination(s) You Blog About and/or Areas of Interest

I have been traveling around the world for 2+ years. I blog about the people, places, and sometimes things!

I am a three-time Emmy-award-winning Television Writer/Producer/Editor. I produced a variety of broadcast specials, including a weekly lifestyles and entertainment magazine show on ABC Chicago for the last ten years. After 15 years in Television I decided to take a sabbatical of sorts, which turned into 2+ years traveling and working my way around the world. I have written about the (mis)adventures that ensued as I traipsed around the globe on my travel website, www.LLworldtour.com, which has had hundreds of thousands of hits and subscribers from all over the world. I was recently interviewed for ABC’s Good Morning America. My site was a finalist in the 2008 Weblog Awards and listed as one of the “Travel Blogs I can’t live without” in 2008 and top twenty “most-inspirational’ blogs of 2007” by nationally syndicated columnist Chris Elliot. I was also featured on MSNBC.com, Frommers.com, the Chicago Daily Herald, the NJ Daily Record, Women on the Road, The Travel Chicks Radio Show and Chicagoist. Furthermore, my articles and photographs have been published by Sunset Magazine, Smithsonian Online, Encyclopedia Britannica Blogs, The Dallas Morning News, The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Go Nomad, Brave New Traveler, and The Savvy Gal. I’ve lectured on traveling solo and am teaming up with Whole Foods, REI, and Hostelling International for ‘Travel and Food’ seminars this summer...oh, and I'm writing a book.

Over the last two and a half years, I took Spanish and surfing lessons in Costa Rica, rode through the narrow fjords and icy glaciers of the Chilean Patagonia, hiked up a snowy volcano in Ecuador, swam with dolphins off the coast of New Zealand, climbed high atop the Harbour Bridge in Sydney, sand-boarded the dunes of Dubai, kayaked between pristine islands of Belize, climbed like Moses to the top of Mt. Sinai, and successfully accomplished a two-week bicycle tour through the rice fields Vietnam. I have also found work in many places—I served up coffee and sandwiches in a café in Melbourne, taught private business English lessons in Istanbul, performed proofreading work for a Turkish media conglomerate, worked as a research assistant at the University of Cologne, was a pet sitter and an ‘extra’ in Los Angeles, did public relations for a company in Madrid and did some English voice recording for a publishing company in Berlin. All the while I’ve been trying to ‘build my brand’ and have been documenting my trip with photographs and articles from the road/train tracks/rickshaw/camel.

Travel Type:

Adventure, Budget, Solo, Hostelling, Flashpacking, Bicycling, Culinary, Women's Travel, Voluntourism, Photography