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 […]
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 […]
AMSTERDAM NIGHTLY WALK
When traveling the world with your children, one of the rarest treasures is time alone.
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 […]
TRAVELIN’ HEAVEN: THE KINDNESS OF FRIENDS’ PARENTS
While we were in Paris, we did a lot of long term planning (i.e. “Let’s go to Kenya in June”), but we neglected to figure out where we were going in the short term — as in immediately. So we drove out of Paris in a rented car, heading south, knowing nothing more than we […]
JE NE VEUX PAS QUITTER PARIS
This translates into the simple phrase: “I don’t want to leave Paris.” After 86 cities, 43 flights, and roughly 228 days on the move, we decided to spend 34 days parked in one place. We lived out of closets instead of suitcases, cooked meals for ourselves, rode the Metro and Velibs instead of airplanes. Mark […]
WE HAVE FUN TOGETHER
What does it mean to be “lifelong friends”? Well, Franny, Finn, Charlie and Sam bring literal meaning to the phrase. They met one another within 48 hours of each other’s birth — a consequence of the close friendship of their parents, Mark, Jen, P.K. and Beth. Now half a generation later, the Flackett-Levin family is […]
EVERYTHING WE WILL MISS ABOUT TEL AVIV
It’s a funny thing about Tel Aviv. It’s probably one of the most livable cities in the world. Right up there with Sydney, or Paris, or Shanghai (on a rare clear day). But whenever people come home from Israel, they’re talking about the complex history of Jerusalem, or the pulsating politics of the country, or […]