Terry Ward of AOL Travel News tells about how a trip around the world opened doors to a dream for The Lost Girls.

Thousands of miles from their hectic Manhattan cubicles and whirlwind New York lives, where the thundering Iguazú Falls roar across the border between Argentina and Brazil, three friends were struck with a life-changing thought: “Was the road most frequently traveled the one that we wanted to follow?”

The year was 2005, and this simple line in the prologue of the new book “The Lost Girls: Three Friends, Four Continents, One Unconventional Detour Around The World” — written by Jennifer Baggett, Holly C. Corbett and Amanda Pressner — is at the heart of an incredible around-the-world journey that took the young women 60,000 miles around the globe in 2006 for a year that would change their lives. [Read more at AOL Travel]