College student likes out-of-the-way places as she travels around the world
BY LISA PERKINSlperkins@record-eagle.com
GAYLORD -- -- Meg Miner prefers to travel off the beaten path, which made achieving her goal of visiting six continents by her 25th birthday all the more challenging.
Her trek through the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador early this year came just a few weeks past her birthday, but put her in the small group of travelers who have touched ground in six continents -- visiting 33 countries in the process.
"Ecuador is one of the more accessible places to go and see what the rainforest really looks like," said Miner, who considers herself a science nerd.
The Gaylord High School graduate attributes her love of travel to growing up in Newfoundland and southern Spain while her dad served as a physician in the military, plus the semester she spent in South Africa working toward her degree in environmental science and aquatic ecology at the University of Michigan.
While studying in Africa, she visited her favorite place in the world -- Mozambique.
"It is totally not what you expect from Africa. There is an amazing coastline with great scuba diving and a real Latin sort of vibe," said Miner, who spent four months after graduation backpacking around the world.
"I just liked the feel of being on the road and not knowing what is going to happen the next day," said Miner, who was drawn to third-world countries including Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia and Nepal.
Now studying for her masters in environmental journalism at Boston University, she hopes to be able to incorporate travel into her preferred career path.
"Maybe I will even make it to the seventh continent, Antarctica," she said.
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