Lauren and I are preparing to travel around the world!

We leave on July 10 and go east until we're back again. Being on the road for a full year requires all sorts of special knowledge and skills. Visas, airlines, backpacks, hi-tech travel underwear?! Where do you start?

My savior has been The Practical Nomad: How to Travel Around the World by Edward Hasbrouck.

I've spent hours with The Practical Nomad in front of me while I looked at websites like BootsnAll Travel and The Tranquillo Traveler (where I first learned about The Practical Nomad). The view has become very familiar, so I drew a picture of it (that's what I do). In the background is a calender which looms larger and larger with each passing day.

This is the drawing of the week for May 4-11, 2008.

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Tranquillo Traveler
Drawings of the Weeks

A tree near the Coliseum/Oakland Airport BART station that I drew while waiting for the train on the way back from the Airport.

This is the drawing of the week for April 20-26, 2008.

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Plants
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Riding home on BART on a Thursday night after seeing "Into the Wild."

This is the drawing of the week for December 2-8, 2007.

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Self Portraits
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Waiting for a ride outside Lake Merritt Bart station, looking at Laney College.

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Impressions of a ride on the R from Brooklyn to the Village.

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Having returned from the Playa for only a few days, I was still feeling the culture shock while riding Bart to downtown. At Burning Man, everyone is a friend with whom you can strike up a conversation and from whom you are likely to receive some sort of gift.

This is the drawing of the week for September 2-8, 2007.

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The drawing on this postcard records my impressions of the seascape as we ferried from Naxos to Amorgos.

Just this moment arrived in Amorgos, a long, thin island only ~20mi long in the Greek Cyclades islands. As we stepped off our ferry, after a little more than six placed hours of saaaiiiling, we were greeted by a dozen women holding up laminated books of their domatia and cheap hotels...
XOXOX - Lauren & Todd

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Nature
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This is our first postcard from Greece, created on the ferry Dimitroula. As with our trip to India, I'm drawing and painting postcards and Lauren is writing about the trip on the back. We took a picture of the postcards before mailing them so that you can see them all. Click on the images to read the whole messages.

...slept in sleeping bags on benches on the top deck in the open Aegean sea air overnight under flourescents, of all things, to arrive at our first Greek Island, Naxos... XOXO - Lauren & Todd

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I was going to Oakland, he got off at Montgomery.

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Faces

Waiting for the train back to San Francisco.

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