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One Year Off: Leaving It All Behind for a Round-the-World Journey with Our Children

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Manufacturer: Travelers' Tales
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A year off from work. A meandering, serendipitous journey around the globe with the people you love most. No mortgage, no car payments, no pressure. Though it sounds like an impossible dream for most people, one day David Cohen and his family decide to make it a reality. With his wife and three children, Cohen sets off on a rollicking journey, full of laugh-out-loud mishaps, heart-pounding adventures, and unforeseen epiphanies. Readers join the Cohen family and trek up a Costa Rican volcano, roam the Burgundy canals by houseboat, traverse the vast Australian desert, and discover Istanbul by night. Through it all, the family gets the rare opportunity to get to know each other without the mundane distractions of television and video games, discovering the world through new eyes and gaining fresh perspective on life and priorities.


DESCRIPTION:

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.41
EAN: 9781885211651
ISBN: 1885211651
Label: Travelers' Tales
Manufacturer: Travelers' Tales
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 312
Publication Date: 2001-06-09
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Studio: Travelers' Tales


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SIMILAR ITEMS:

• WorldTrek: A Family Odyssey
• The Family Sabbatical Handbook: The Budget Guide To Living Abroad With Your Family
• Frommer's 500 Places to Take Your Kids Before They Grow Up
• Adventuring With Children: An Inspirational Guide to World Travel and the Outdoors (Avalon House Travel Series)
• Exotic Travel Destinations for Families


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Customer Rating:
Summary: great lite read
Comment: I loved this book.

It's a light, easy read. It's not a detailed travel guide, so if you want painstaking details, and precise information go to Frommer's.....but if you want an anecdotal, fun read, inspiring, adventurous and simple pick this up....like a long magazine article/family travel, complete with the chaos that traveling with kids can bring and ideas to sound off of.

Things I would never think of like renting a houseboat on the Burgundy river, or that Turkey was amazing. The book is however pre 9/11, pre George Bush, if that matters, the world seemed a little friendlier then.

Customer Rating:
Summary: one year off....
Comment: A very interesting and entertaining book. It is not a "how to" book though so if that is what you are looking for then pass this one up. There are a few good ideas that he passes on the reader but it is definitely NOT a instructional book. There is some diatrabe about this patron's country that are NOT entertaining. These statements are really sad but everyone is entitled to their opinion. Since I am entitled to mine, I have to say this book is only a 3 star.

Customer Rating:
Summary: A great family book to read.
Comment: This book has opened a whole new world of possibility for me and my family. This book has helped me to realize that having kids doesn't mean my dreams of traveling the world have to end or wait until later.

A great family adventure to witness.

The kids in the book are so cute too.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Entertaining but not enough meat to base a year off decision on
Comment: I really enjoyed reading this book and it was easy to finish. It tries to sound like it is written as it is happening but it seems pretty clear that it has been filtered by hindsight. Although he touches on some of the challenges like getting his kids to stop fighting, again, I think the hindsight filter has mitigated how challenging this might have been at the time. Also, it seems like it focuses on the highlights, much like travel guides do when I was more interested in some of the nitty gritty of the daily life of trying to do something like this with children. What you have is a pleasant travelogue with some nicely written vignettes. My personal take-away is I would rather have my children and I spend more time in fewer places - more likely picking a base and exploring from there instead of living out of a suitcase. I also imagine that this trip cost the Cohen's a lot more than we would consider spending. They did, for example, bring along a nanny. One very useful aspect of this tale is they had a toddler along with two school age children and we get to see how the different ages affects how they reacted to the trip.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Sparked An Interest!
Comment: I enjoyed this book greatly. It was written from the father's point of view, which made for interesting reading. Some people complained about the "rich California dad" mentality, which I didn't find to be present at all.

The only thing I wished it had more of was more details...as a Mom, I can't imagine traversing the globe with three kids, including one in diapers! I wish there were more specifics about just HOW they managed it all...

I would highly recommend this book to anyone, especially the taveler or the dreamer who might enjoy a round the world trip!

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