This final short film about our journey around the world has been an (intensive) labor of love. The movie is about Time, and how weird and ridiculously valuable time is. Time, it turns out, was the real gift we gave ourselves: One year to be alone together discovering the world. In this time, we discovered […]
THE ESSENTIALS
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
A TYPICAL SCHOOL DAY
As we begin to address the mountain of questions that have poured in, we will start with the one that we unequivocally hear the most: “What do the kids do about school?” Once you tell a stranger that you’re taking a year off to travel the world, this is far and away the first thing […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.