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What makes Bond “Gutsy”? She has hiked, cycled, climbed, dived and kayaked her way through more than ninety countries around the world, from the depths of the Flores Sea to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. She studied in Paris for four years, earned two degrees and had a business career in high-tech marketing.

Summer 2010 found Marybeth and her daughter on a grand coast-to-coast adventure—3,114 miles of riding their bikes by day and blogging by night to raise funds and awareness for the National Osteoporosis Foundation.

Through mountain passes in the Rockies, headwinds in Nevada, chigger bites in Kansas and wild dogs in Kentucky, they persevered and raised $52,000 for Osteoporosis Education and Research.

Video: In this clip from CNN, Marybeth shares great advice for travel safety and hotel security while you travel. “Don’t let fear keep you at home!” says Marybeth. “Use your common sense.” This is an especially helpful video for business travelers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx63JhlmTeQ

Video: An introduction to Marybeth Bond

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRfrEIb_iIg

Books

Marybeth Bond is an award-winning author/editor of eleven travel books including Best Girlfriend Getaways Worldwide, 50 Best Girlfriend Getaways in North America (National Geographic), A Woman’s World, Gutsy Women, Gutsy Mamas, A Mother’s World, A Woman’s Passion for Travel and
A Woman’s Europe (Travelers’ Tales). Marybeth is also the Specialty Correspondent for TravelGirl Magazine, Marin Magazine, and the National Geographic Blog.

Media Personality

• Featured guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show,
• The travel expert for CBS/Evening Magazine,
• NBC, ABC, Fox News Network
• CNN Headline News,
• CNN Travel Channel, Oxygen
• She on over 1,000 TV stations, 250 radio stations.

Spokesperson

Marybeth’s work as a spokesperson for corporate clients includes: in-studio interviews on national TV networks, Satellite Media Tours (SMT’s), National Live TV Tours in local markets, Radio Media Tours (RMT’s), B-Roll production, and writing travel tips/advice content for scripts.

Her clients include Burson-Marsteller, Johnson & Johnson, British Airways, National Geographic, Discover Card, Fleishman Hillard, Sprint, Procter & Gamble, and more.

Newspaper & Magazine Articles
New York Times
Los Angeles Times
USA Today
Denver Post
Houston Chronicle
Dallas Times Herald
Copley News Service
Universal Press Syndicate
Chicago Tribune
San Francisco Examiner
Travel Holiday
Travel & Leisure
Redbook
First for Women
New Women
Travelgirl magazine

Marybeth continues to criss-cross the globe educating, enlightening and empowering others to explore it through travel.  Whether your idea of a “gutsy traveler” is taking your first plane ride across the Atlantic, navigating the promenades of Paris, or going rafting in the Rockies, Marybeth’s travel tips, know-how and practical advice will guide you along the way.

Marybeth is a member of the Society of American Travel Writers and was an adviser for Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

She lives in Northern California with her husband (whom she met while trekking in Nepal) and two daughters.

Contact Marybeth at mbond99@yahoo.com

Watch this to the end to see what the men do when they’re in a trance. I got a chance to see this rare Javanese dance performed in rural villages and accompanied by gamelan music. Dancers are calling the spirits to possess them.  When a dancer is possessed, he no longer performs regular dancing, but carries out dangerous acts, such as eating broken glass, coconut shell and fire. The dancers are healed by the shaman or man with the whip, with prayers and water.

Regal school girls practice English with Marybeth Bond, the Gutsy Traveler. School girls, market, artist making shadow puppets. Shopping, handicrafts, etc.

Over the course of two months, we biked 3,114 miles from the Pacific to the Atlantic, through five National Parks and seven cities, beginning in our hometown of San Francisco and ending in New York City. In the process we  raised $52,000 for the National Osteoporosis Foundation for research and education.

While I’m quite sure this is not something I’m ever going to do again, I’m very proud of what we accomplished–and as a chance to bond with my daughters and meet people across America, it was an amazing experience.

She learned about the practice of child slavery 10 ago and since then has worked tirelessly to find a solution. Olga’s new program pays parents to keep their daughters at home and in school. However, in lieu of cash, her foundation, Nepal Youth Foundation, offers families a piglet, which they can raise on kitchen scraps and sell, ultimately receiving about as much as they would from their daughter’s labor.  Girls receive a school uniform, notebooks, pencils, a school bag, a daily snack at school, and most importantly, an education.

“What began as a pilot project with 37 families now includes 2,500 girls,” she marveled.

“I realized that education is the best way to ensure a better life for these children,” Olga says, knowing this would become the cornerstone of her work. Over the last 19 years, not only has the number of supported children expanded, but so have the ways in which they are helped. In addition to scholarships, NYF funds the salaries of more than 65 teachers in various poor rural areas of Nepal, and teacher training in a country where teachers are not trained. Her foundation also runs two boarding schools and nutritional programs in Kathmandu.

Olga was an attorney who worked for 37 years helping write opinions for two California Supreme Court chief justices in San Francisco. Today she crisscrosses the globe to help children.

She has been a guest on “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” NPR, and National Geographic Weekend, and was honored by the Dalai Lama and the former king of Nepal.

Learn more: Nepal Youth Foundation

Gutsy Women, for novice as well as experienced travelers, provides a wealth of fresh ideas on how to travel safely, comfortably, within your budget, alone, with your mother or children. Sections of the book address: The Older Adventuress, The First Time Traveler, The Solo Traveler, Women’s Health and Hygiene, Dining on the Road, and Romance, Loneliness, and Unwelcome Advances. The book is packed with funny, instructive and inspiring travel vignettes from the author and from people like yourself who have traveled a little, or extensively.

“Best Places for Adventure Escapes” includes rafting the Colorado, heli-hiking the Canadian Rockies, and kayaking or canoeing in Maine. “Best Bonding Vacations” recommends Ashland, Oregon, Rocky Mountain National Park, Chicago, and Lake Chatauqua, New York, while “Best Places to Heal When You’ve Been Dumped” sends you to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and to Big Sur, California.

Other chapters offer suggestions for golf getaways, pampering retreats, artsy getaways, and great retail therapy. The book is filled with practical tips on roommate etiquette, safety, packing, budgeting, and other specific advice for the growing number of women—young, old, single, married, divorced, and widowed—who are hitting the road. Short, true stories about women’s experiences open each chapter, and quotes from all types of women travelers broaden the appeal—further inspiring readers to pack up their bags, call a girlfriend, and say “let’s go!”

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Marybeth Bond, the Gutsy Traveler, offers a 10-step program for the chronic over-packer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcR9bVSlS4s

Visit http://www.PackingMadeEasy.com for more packing tips, packing lists, and videos from Marybeth Bond, the Gutsy Traveler!

Marybeth Bond is the nation’s preeminent expert on women travel. She is the award-winning author-editor of 11 books, including the best sellers 50 Best Girlfriend Getaways in North America, A Woman’s World and Gutsy Women.