Saturday, June 09, 2007
CFF: Map for Saturday
This was a documentary done by Brook Silva-Braga about his year of travelling. He went beyond the backpack in Europe stuff and spent a considerable amount of time in Asia.
Brook saved up money, left his cushy job, and went out to see the world. Doesn't sound like anything particually unusual when written out like that...but the documentary was incredibly insightful about life on the road and the type of person who is willing to take that leap.
Travel takes you out of your box. You meet different people, see different lives...it can be incredibly eye-opening. Yet, I was dissapointed during the Q&A after the film. In some ways Brook seemed as confined by the "have-to" list as Joe Blow off the street. Many of the people interviewed by Brook while travelling seem to be more open to out of the box thinking.
Most interesting to me was his assertion that he feels the need to get this all done before marriage and kids because "you can't do it then" Uh...no..you can. It's different, its certainly not mainstream..but it can be done. My DH and I are contemplating saving up money and divesting ourselves of stuff so we can start travelling with our two boys in a couple of years. But then we're already out of the mainstream (homeschooling, unschooling, Compact) so that's just part of who we are.
Make no mistake....this is a great movie! If you did the backpack thing, it'll bring back good memories...if you're just thinking about doing it, its informative...and nothing else, hopefully it'll show people how to think out of the box a bit.
A Map for Saturday is the website. There are DVD's of the movie for sale there as well as some other information about the film.
Debby
Brook saved up money, left his cushy job, and went out to see the world. Doesn't sound like anything particually unusual when written out like that...but the documentary was incredibly insightful about life on the road and the type of person who is willing to take that leap.
Travel takes you out of your box. You meet different people, see different lives...it can be incredibly eye-opening. Yet, I was dissapointed during the Q&A after the film. In some ways Brook seemed as confined by the "have-to" list as Joe Blow off the street. Many of the people interviewed by Brook while travelling seem to be more open to out of the box thinking.
Most interesting to me was his assertion that he feels the need to get this all done before marriage and kids because "you can't do it then" Uh...no..you can. It's different, its certainly not mainstream..but it can be done. My DH and I are contemplating saving up money and divesting ourselves of stuff so we can start travelling with our two boys in a couple of years. But then we're already out of the mainstream (homeschooling, unschooling, Compact) so that's just part of who we are.
Make no mistake....this is a great movie! If you did the backpack thing, it'll bring back good memories...if you're just thinking about doing it, its informative...and nothing else, hopefully it'll show people how to think out of the box a bit.
A Map for Saturday is the website. There are DVD's of the movie for sale there as well as some other information about the film.
Debby
Life
we've been sick for nearly three months!
We've had the flu, bronchitis, tonsillitis, and multiple colds. I have never been so sick in my life! Ended up on steroids, antibiotics, inhalers.....
Just after I got back from the Cleveland Film Festival I felt something wrong....and boy was a right. Frankly, I think it was our bodies responding to the stress of my dad's last few weeks. When it was all over, we fell apart...I know I did.
In the middle of this we planned a vacation since we hadn't been on one in quite awhile. We drove down to visit some friends in Tampa...then took a Carnival cruise that made me feel positively geriatric, spent one day at Universal Studios Orlando (It is better (cleaner, more fun) than that Mouse place. And then, for my older son, we spent two days at the Nick Hotel. Think 5 star resort for the 10 and under set. It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. It was very clean and lots of fun. We also got a great rate.
Some big changes are coming down the pike for us. Don't want to talk about them right now but in a week we'll have a better idea of what we're going to do.
Debby
NOW READING:P.J. O'Rourke on The Wealth of Nations Delightful little read about O'Rourke's veiw of Adam Smith's groundbreaking book on economics. It's a great read especially if you don't know anything about Smith's book
We've had the flu, bronchitis, tonsillitis, and multiple colds. I have never been so sick in my life! Ended up on steroids, antibiotics, inhalers.....
Just after I got back from the Cleveland Film Festival I felt something wrong....and boy was a right. Frankly, I think it was our bodies responding to the stress of my dad's last few weeks. When it was all over, we fell apart...I know I did.
In the middle of this we planned a vacation since we hadn't been on one in quite awhile. We drove down to visit some friends in Tampa...then took a Carnival cruise that made me feel positively geriatric, spent one day at Universal Studios Orlando (It is better (cleaner, more fun) than that Mouse place. And then, for my older son, we spent two days at the Nick Hotel. Think 5 star resort for the 10 and under set. It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. It was very clean and lots of fun. We also got a great rate.
Some big changes are coming down the pike for us. Don't want to talk about them right now but in a week we'll have a better idea of what we're going to do.
Debby
NOW READING:P.J. O'Rourke on The Wealth of Nations Delightful little read about O'Rourke's veiw of Adam Smith's groundbreaking book on economics. It's a great read especially if you don't know anything about Smith's book
