Courtesy of Courtney Muro
Nikki Hodgson, 27; San Diego, CA
“For the record,” says Nikki Hodgson, who snapped this picture in Jordan’s Wadi Rum desert while on a girls-trip vacation, “Lawrence of Arabia makes riding a camel seem a lot more romantic than it actually is.” Nikki’s favorite moment of the multi-day trek was just after taking this picture: “It felt empowering to be doing a girls’ trip on our own in the middle of a region [the Middle East] associated with so many stereotypes discouraging women from traveling,” she says, “but, in this moment, we were just three girls lounging around on the rocks, soaking up some sun, talking about boys, and wondering what was for dinner.”
Courtesy of Christy Schuler
Christy Schuler, 33; Santa Barbara, CA
Forty-degree temps and the threat of waist-deep water didn’t deter Hawaii native Nichole Gutzeit from hitting a perfect Natarajasana pose—the dancer—atop a standup paddleboard near Santa Barbara, CA, last spring. Nichole’s fiancé Paul Reece submitted this photo taken by their friend and photography teacher Christy Schuler. “She didn’t fall off,” he says, attributing the board’s stability to Carbonerro “training rails” invented by Nichole’s brother, “but between poses you could hear her teeth chattering.”
Courtesy of Christy Schuler
Courtney Muro, 26; Sacramento, CA
Heads or tails? That’s how Courtney Muro (right), Danielle Walker (left), and friends Kaberly Doerr and Jacqui Peters ended up on these quads outside of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand. The girls—childhood friends from California—flipped coins or voted on the countries to visit during their 9-month travel, volunteer, and work tour of Southeast Asia last year. They added nine country stamps to their passports during that trip and plan to add at least a handful more when they set out to combine travel, volunteering, work—“and partying,” adds Courtney—as they explore South America this summer.
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