Which badass female traveler are you?

There have been a lot of badass women travelers throughout history. Which one would you have been?

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On Aug 5, 2015

Which era would you prefer to live in?

Pick a mode of transport.

Pick a profession.

Pick a landscape.

Pick a musician.

Pick a historical figure you'd like to punch in the face.

Pick a food.

Pick a country you want to visit.

Pick one.

Pick who you'd most like to be.

Nellie Bly

Nellie Bly

Around the world in 80 days? Screw that, you'd do it in 72. And if your 19th century newspaper editors wanted you to write articles on gardening and homemaking, you'd tell them to shove it, and would fake insanity to expose cruel treatment of prisoners at insane asylums instead. Then you'd go and get hounded out of Mexico for agitating for freedom of the press. You're Nellie Goddamn Bly.

Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart

People said you were dead when you disappeared over the Pacific while attempting to be the first woman to circumnavigate the world by plane, but you know what really happened: you decided to bail on society and live on a tropical island because the patriarchy was the goddamn worst, and because you knew a mysterious disappearance would only enhance your legend as a feminist icon.

Lady Hester Stanhope

Lady Hester Stanhope

Your boat on its way to Egypt got shipwrecked and you lost all your stuff, but you refused to wear the women's veils that were traditional in Turkey, so you just dressed like a dude instead. Fortune-tellers said you'd marry the next Messiah, but you said screw that, and instead took over an abandoned monastery in Lebanon, took in refugees, began the first modern archaelogical digs in the Holy Land, and dubbed yourself "Queen Hester." Because Girls Rule the World.

Laura Dekker

Laura Dekker

You wanted to circumnavigate the globe single-handed in your own sailboat, but you were only 14, so the Dutch court stepped in and tried to stop you. Pssh. You fought the law and the law LOST. You finished your circumnavigation before your 17th birthday, and are officially the badassest female traveler alive. Oh, and you're still under the age of 20.

Sacajawea

Sacajawea

Lewis and Clark hired your husband to guide them through the American West in their attempt to find the Northwest Passage, but you ended up doing most of the heavy lifting guiding them safely to the Pacific and back. Sure, you were only 13, sure you'd been kidnapped at 12, sure, your husband had "won" you while gambling, and sure, you guided them while carrying your first child, but whatever. NBD.

Gertrude Bell

Gertrude Bell

You once had to cling to the side of a mountain for 48 hours in a snowstorm to stay alive. You were a travel writer and an archaeologist. You worked for the Red Cross during World War I. You were a spy for Britain. You spoke out about the Armenian Genocide. You were buds with Churchill and T.E. Lawrence. Oh yeah: and you were one of the creators of modern Iraq. Hey, the world's most interesting woman has to be allowed to make SOME mistakes.

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