• Posted on August 25, 2013

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.  […]

  • Posted on August 21, 2013

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 […]

  • Posted on August 17, 2013

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. […]

  • Posted on August 14, 2013

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). […]

  • Posted on August 11, 2013

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 […]

  • Posted on August 07, 2013

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 […]

  • Posted on August 04, 2013

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 […]

  • Posted on August 01, 2013

IS THERE A BETTER MUSEUM EXPERIENCE ON THE PLANET?

A half hour north of Copenhagen by train, you get off at a stop called Humlebæk then follow the signs as you walk about ten minutes up the road to a place called Lousiana.  Louisiana is a modern art museum, and it is our family’s unanimous choice for best museum in the world.  It has gorgeous […]

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