Way back in 2015, I wrote about this world-traveling family’s 20 Most Memorable Moments of 2014. But our journey had only just started — we continued hopping across the globe for a good portion of 2015. Here are the 35 things we experienced in 2015 that we regularly talk about.
› This summer we're packing up and hitting the road to experience that great tradition—the Epic American Road Trip. We'll be traveling the highways and byways of the United States, journeying through 17 states in three weeks. Join us, won't you?
After leaving England, we had a three-day layover in Iceland, a small island country the locals call a land of ice and fire. On our first day, we got the lay of the land in Reykjavik, along with a history lesson or two, and some delicious hot dogs.
Way back around the year 120, Roman Emperor Hadrian built a giant wall too keep the wildmen out of the northern border of the Roman Empire. Parts of that wall still stand today.
During our 333-day trip around the world, I filmed one second of video for each day we were traveling. Well, kind of. When it was all over, all that footage was turned into a six-minute video that nicely chronicles our journey. And you can see that video right here.
We venture out into Santiago, Chile and discover a really cool city.
We left Easter Island and headed back to Santiago where we’d spend a day before flying out for Sydney, then New Zealand. Many plane flights in our near future.
At last!
One of the things Frankie was looking forward to was trying Vegemite. It played out pretty much how I thought it would: it was not the next favorite food. But, being who she is, she's committed to trying it again. She's determined she's going to like it.
Tom Fassbender is a writer of things with a strong adventurous streak. He also drinks coffee.
Our second day on Easter Island: more moai and bird-men.
To get to Easter Island we flew from Santiago, Chile. And that's pretty much all we did on this day.
This is going to be short. We didn't really do much today, other than fly.
An adventure deep into the Panamanian jungle in the capable hands of Captain Carl of Jungleland Panama.
We wanted to visit the fish market we'd seen yesterday (Mercado de Mariscos), which was near Casco Viejo, and we wanted to visit our first UNESCO site, Panamá Viejo—and to do that we were going to need a taxi.
