It’s one thing to find your way around the world, but it’s another thing to find your way around a blog about finding your way around the world. Therefore, we have created The Essentials, our own personal favorites culled from the 120 films we created while we were on the road. Here are eleven of […]
EPILOGUE
Don’t you just love it after reading a story when you’re given the chance to catch up with the characters and learn what’s become of them?We’re only one month removed from the trip, but life in Los Angeles is surprisingly lovely. We use the word “surprising” because we were pretty much dreading our return. We […]
FOUR REFLECTIONS
Memory is ridiculously fleeting. Almost instantaneously as we arrived home, we could feel the trip slipping from something we were doing to something we had done. It’s startling how quickly the present becomes the past. So on our fourth day back in Los Angeles, before we even officially returned to our house which was still […]
A SURPRISINGLY SIMPLE AND PRACTICAL GUIDE TO TRAVELING ONE FULL LAP AROUND PLANET EARTH
One of the incredible things about our Year To Think was how the trip completely demystified travel for us. The more time we spent on the road the more we learned about how to navigate all sorts of logistical challenges — and we discovered a variety of basic truths that we now want to share. […]
DAMN, IT’S NICE TO GO TRAVELIN’
With about five posts remaining, we wanted to share this little love letter to the road with you. After a sojourn in New York and Boston, our family has finally touched down back in Los Angeles after more than 365 days away from home. Now the re-acclimation process begins (wish us luck!). As Old Blue […]
THE MOVIES WE NEVER MADE
What makes for a good movie on “A Year To Think”? Compelling subject matter is, of course, king. A strong cinematic concept definitely helps. A narrative arc is never frowned upon. And a surprising emotional component is always home run. But not everything we shot found its way out of our constantly moving post-production facility. […]
15 PLACES NOT TO BE MISSED (AND 5 PLACES YOU CAN SKIP)
Okay, we’ve talked about Great Cities To Live In. But let’s face it, you can’t live everywhere. Some places you just want to visit. Here are fifteen incredible places we recommend seeing before you’re six feet under (and a handful of places that, in our opinion, you can meet your maker without laying eyes upon). […]
LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN
On our journey, we were blessed with weirdly nice weather and oddly good timing nearly everywhere we went. It’s not that we didn’t have our rainy days (in Venice), our blistering cold days (in Budapest), and our staggeringly hot days (in Bangkok) — but for the most part, we managed to bob and weave with […]
HOW WE PACK
“How do you pack for a year around the world?” This is our second most asked question. The simple answer is “Pack as if you’re traveling for two weeks.” We found this advice on a number of blogs we found when we googled “family around the world travel.” Most importantly, it all begins with the […]
THE BEST CITIES IN THE WORLD (TO LIVE IN)
Having nearly completed our tour of many of the world’s great cities, we offer the following list of metropoles we’d most want to call home. You’ve heard of the proverbial “nice place to visit but I wouldn’t want to live there” — well, this list is the opposite. In most of these cities, we lived […]