The countdown clock has officially started ticking: The Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers have already descended upon Dallas--home of Super Bowl XLV--and fans are literally beating back blizzards in order to join them for the game.

Couldn't score a pair of seats to football's almightiest match-up? Don't sweat it....

When we made the decision to leave our careers, apartments and relationships in New York City to take the yearlong, 60,000-mile journey around the planet that we chronicle in our book "Lost Girls," we had just two objectives in mind: To take a serious departure from the beaten track we'd...