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Last week, National Geographic Adventure TV published a list of their top adventure travelers on Twitter. I was bummed, the list included ONE woman, @CarolDTravels. The criteria listed at the top of the article -- "our top twitter picks of celebrity travellers, professional nomads and down-right crazy adventurers" -- was sufficiently vague to mean that there's no good reason at all to have such a short supply of women. I started counting folks I know on my hands, easily coming up with ten, before moving on to others who are mostly, but not exclusively, professional nomads, and I just got aggravated.
Interesting, the magazine wing does a MUCH better job of putting together their list, including folks like ocean rower Roz Savage and, huh, I did NOT know Jane Goodall had a Twitter account, did you?
We're out there, seeing the world.There are the founders of GoGalavanting, Kim Mance and Maren Hogan, they're all over Twitter. Beth Whitman, founder of Wanderlust and Lipstick -- she's out there. Audrey and Dan, of the always beautiful Uncornered Market, they're in crazy places and on Twitter. TravelSavvyKayt took her son to Jordan, is that not adventurous enough? I'm not even trying, here. (These are blog links, I encourage you to click through, read their blogs, and see if you'd like to follow them on Twitter.) I'm thinking you can come up with a few names without trying, too.
It's the lack of effort that gets me. I'm scrolling through my Twitter feed, just there to the right, and seeing women expats in Morocco and Shanghai. Women who have reinvented themselves as travelers in their 50s. Women who have always avoided the mainstream and make their living as digital nomads. All kinds of adventurers, and oh so many of them are women. And only ONE on the NGA list? ONE? Really?
Are you an adventure traveler? Are you on Twitter? Leave your Twitter name in the comments, please.
Pam blogs about travel and other adventures at Nerd's Eye View.
