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 Megan’s travelogue got a mention in National Geographic Traveler’s Intelligent Travel Blog – the blog about authentic and sustainable travel – in an entry titled Wired Woman Wanderlust: Top Travel Blogs. With Funchilde and The Lost Girls, she is in excellent company. |
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 The Subway Chronicles website was so successful that it gave birth to a book. Check out Megan's essay "Standing Up" in the anthology The Subway Chronicles: Scenes From Life in New York. Publishers Weekly calls the book “a delightful collection of New York stories by veteran straphangers—both known and unknown—dedicated to that amazing underground network.” The book, edited by Jacquelin Cangro, also includes essays by Calvin Trillin, Jonathan Lethem, and Francine Prose. (Penguin/Plume) |
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 There comes a time in every miserable journey when you stop talking, stop telling childhood stories and making up road bingo games and joking about being eaten by howler monkeys. Megan Lyles has reached that point. Read about a disastrous border crossing from Mexico into Guatemala in "Deliver Us From Howler Monkeys" on BootsnAll.com – the Ultimate Resource for the Independent Traveller. |
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 Everyone has that foreign bathroom story. Megan's, "Riding the Semi-Deluxe", has some spiders, a pig, and three little girls in it. You can read it in this book, along with thirty other great travel misadventures (not all bathroom related) from the likes of Ayun Halliday, Laurie Notaro, and Susan Orlean. (Travelers' Tales) |
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 The New York City subway system is like a city all its own. The Subway Chronicles is an online magazine that captures the diversity of stories from the tunnels underneath one of the greatest cities in the world. For a few months, Megan chronicled her subway experiences in a Subway Diary, which you can see here. |
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