This trip is hard work and we haven’t left yet. The last time we shut down for a year we actually moved out of our apartment several days before we left, living in a squat in Williamsburg. We only did this to get some street cred and to get used to sleeping on the floor. …

Is that true? It is true. It would be less terrifying if I wasn’t working for three of the five days before we leave, but there you have it. Some updates on our preparedness or lack-there-of: Fundraising efforts: Well, we are partially funded which means we can head partially into the Straight of Magellan at …

The recent news is that we’ve put a pair of tickets on hold for Antarctica, now comes the fun of paying for them. At the height of the Black Friday frenzy while WalMart shoppers were punching each other out over this year’s must have creepy talking animal, Magda found an amazing deal for a boat …

As we pulled out our two trusty backpacks from a storage bag they put me in mind of a pair of superhero costumes temporarily retired due to misunderstandings with law enforcement, an ultimatum from a super-villain, or bad joints. They are all nylon straps, buckles, lightweight polymer plates and lots of pockets. We emptied these …

We’re heading to South America. In September of 2007, Magda and I packed up our complacent lives into boxes and everything changed. Within days of leaving we were living out of our backpacks, driving across southern Africa and quickly realizing this was what we should have been doing all along. A year later we returned …