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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I provided a drawing to help illustrate the cover of Joshua and Sutay's Pakistan -> India photo album.

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After a year and a half of travel, well documented on The Tranquilo Traveler blog, Josh has thousands of photographs to sort through in our parents' house in Huntington.

This is the drawing of the week for August 27 - September 2.

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From a photo by the Tranquillo Traveler of our mom, Beth Berman, crossing a bridge in Thailand.

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From a photo by my brother, the Tranquillo Traveler, from his blog entry about the Killing Fields of Cambodia. Follow the link to learn more about this horrific story, then go to the blog home to read a vivid description of Joshua and Sutay's most recent adventure.

This is the drawing of the week for November 27 - December 3, 2005.

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Josh finishes reading Anna Karenina on the night before he heads back to Nicaragua. "It ends with the meanding of life - I'm not going to tell you though."

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Josue packs for Nicaragua, again. He writes:

"...The Things I Carried I brought to these northern hills of Nicaragua-in-the-rainy-season a bag of flat, shiny machines tightly packed with both archived and active files -- writing, photos, music, letters, etc. -- the digital detritus of my twenties into..."

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Finca Magdalena is a coffee roasting cooperative on the Nicaraguan volcanic island of Ometepe with a great view of the active volcano, Mt. Concepcion. I made much use of photography by my brother, Joshua Berman for this painting.

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View of La Trinidad, my brother's hometown during his Stint in the Peace Corps in Nicaragua.

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As the song about by grandpa Daniel Richard "Dick" Deutsch goes -

Grandpa Dick's a strong-willed man
he's got a big pot-belly and his real names Dan
Pull up a chair and a grain of salt
he's got a story to tell from his memory vault
So put down a ten plus four on the Knicks
but I'm puttin' my money on Grandpa dick

- from "Granpa Dick" by Josh Berman

This painting hangs in Grandma Helen's house in Great Neck, NY, not far from the spot off the coast from the Merchant Marine Academy on the Long Islang Sound where the bluefish are biting.

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