About Marybeth Bond
Marybeth Bond is a National Geographic author, contributor to PBS, LA Times, USA Today, CNN and more.
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From the Explorers Club in New York City to an International Conference in Malaysia, Marybeth has spoken to business groups, sales meetings, and conventions worldwide.
She knows her subject well. She’s traveled to over 100+ countries. As a GutsyTraveler, she was featured on “The Oprah Winfrey Show”.
Marybeth ranks #1 in Google searches for Women Travel Expert.
She continues to live the GUTSY LIFE. Two summers ago she biked 3,115 miles across the USA with her 22-year-old daughter.
Expanded Bio and More Credentials BELOW
In my 20’s I lived in Luxembourg, Parisand New Caledonia. At age 29 I left my career and traveled solo around the world for two years. In my 30’s and 40’s I lived with nomads in the Thar Desert of India, Sherpa families in Nepal, Karen Tribes in Northern Thailand, the hill tribes (Black Thai) in Northeast Vietnam, Gamblin musicians in Bali, Gaelic dairy farmers on the Dingle Peninsula, Mayans in Mexico and the Navajo on tribal lands in Arizona.
Marybeth on the cover of Outside Magazine for a feature about “Making the Great Escape”
To afford this lifestyle I created a brand (GutsyTraveler), wrote books(12 in total, including Gutsy Women), blogged for National Geographic and GutsyTraveler.com, been on radio and TV as a travel expert, and been a corporate travel spokesperson.
So far I have visited over 100+ countries, all 50 US states, rode my bike, with my daughter, across nine states from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic.
I have hiked, biked, dived, danced, snow-shoed, skied, climbed, copter-ed, tuk-tuked, trekked and traipsed my way through seven continents, from the depth of the Flores Sea to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. Along the way I studied in Paris for four years and earned two degrees.
I wasn’t always a Gutsy Traveler. I grew up in Ohio and cried my way through lonely summer camps. At age 18, with a lot of encouragement from my mother, I landed a job as a waitress in Grand Teton National Parkat Jackson Lake Lodge. That summer away from Ohio stuck with me for years. A friend planted the seed of studying abroad so I studied a year in Luxembourg then four in Paris. That’s when I was committed to travel as a lifestyle.
Marybeth had her own Travel Radio Show and appears often on TV and radio as a travel expert.
More Credentials
I am also the Adventure Correspondent for TravelGirl Magazine, and Special Travel Contributor to CNN Television. My brand, blog and National Geographic Travel Books have been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show, CBS News, CNN, ABC, NBC, The New York Times, and many more.
I was on the cover of Outside Magazine, featuring my story of “How to Make the Great Escape. And how I found “Romance in Kathmandu” (he ended up my husband).
My first book, A Woman’s World, is a best-seller and won the Lowell Thomas Gold Medal for the Best Travel Book from the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation.
My 12th book, Gutsy Women has been published worldwide in four editions and three languages.
Marybeth Bond’s travel book has been published in 4 editions and three languages.
More Background
Marybeth has traveled worldwide with her husband, and two daughters and volunteers for NYOF (Nepal Youth Opportunity Foundation) to liberate girls sold into servitude by their impoverished families.
