• Posted on September 24, 2013

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 […]

  • 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 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 July 13, 2013

A WALKING SAFARI

Once we forded the river, we finally found the starting camp for our “Walking Safari.” Months earlier, when we signed up for this Walking Safari, we really didn’t know what the hell we were getting into.  We were just following the suggestion of a friend of a friend of an acquaintance.  See, for many months […]

  • Posted on July 04, 2013

HOW WE EXERCISE

A couple months back, we discovered an article about a new approach to working out that is very short and very intense.  It requires nothing except your own body and a chair, and the entire workout lasts roughly seven minutes.  There are twelve different exercises that you do for thirty seconds each with a ten […]

  • Posted on July 01, 2013

THE THINGS WE THINK ABOUT WHEN WE VISIT A CONCENTRATION CAMP

Outside Berlin, our family walks through Sachsenhausen, a concentration camp in operation from 1936-1945, and our heads fill with thoughts.

  • Posted on June 28, 2013

AUTOBAHN

Follow the blacktop from Munich to Berlin at a top speed of 220 kilometers per hour (roughly 137 mph).

  • Posted on June 22, 2013

IT’S RAINING IN VENICE

We’d heard stories about Venice in the rain — especially in the winter — when the entire city would be submerged in knee high water and you’d have to wear waders to get around.  But this was the late Spring when we were there and we didn’t expect a relatively light rain to create water […]

  • Posted on June 03, 2013

A DORMITORY IN ROMA

We’ve lived high, we’ve lived low.   We’ve slept in castles, on wooden floors, in guest rooms, on trains, in tents, and on houseboats.  But this was the first dorm room we ever slept in.  And because we happened to show up between terms, we had the entire four building complex all to ourselves.  The […]

  • Posted on May 11, 2013

REAL ESTATE PORN: OUR APARTMENT IN PARIS

We’ve slept on the wooden floors of floating houses in Cambodia, shared cramped hotel rooms in Peru, shivered in freezing tents in the Sahara, and slept four to a train compartment in China.  But for one month, we traded the lives of Nomads for the lives of Parisians.  And what an incredible place in Paris […]

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