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 […]
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. […]
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). […]
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 […]
TRAVELERS’ ADVISORY: ALL GOOD THINGS…
As the saying goes, they must come to an end… eventually. With severely mixed emotions, we are fast approaching the end of our life-changing, mind-expanding, family-enriching Year To Think. Part of us could go on exploring and making short films about our adventures forever, but in about a month’s time, we will return to our […]
THE MANY FACES OF AFRICA
We snapped all the “faces” below in the Samburu and Masai Mara regions of Kenya: Sub-Saharan Africa wasn’t on our original itinerary. It was our thinking that in the future we’d make Africa a trip unto itself. But as we began to circumnavigate the globe, we realized it would be plain wrong to make an […]
EZZY & CLEVELAND RETURN TO VENICE
In 2009, shortly after the death of Mark’s father, our family took a trip to Europe for six weeks. Before this, we had never spent more than three weeks on holiday — and Mark worried that he might not be able to stand such a long time with idle hands. So, as a lark, together […]
THE SIMPLE POWER OF THE ORANGE HAT
Exactly. And therein lies the power of the orange hat. In addition to being a bold fashion statement, a small homage to the spirited Detroit Tigers (Mark’s hometown team), and a salute to our family’s favorite color, the orange hat is an essential tool for keeping track of each other across the world. Mark and […]
EXPERIMENTS IN ART
While in Paris, we had the time and opportunity to wander through museums with our drawing pads and colored pencils, trying our hand at imitating the Masters. See if you can guess which family member drew which sketch below (clockwise from top left). [UPDATE: The answer to “who drew what” can be found in the comments […]