We all love to travel, and often our cameras are a window into the world and its cultures. Now imagine packing everything you need to travel the world nonstop for a year and a half. After years of saving, and very little actual planning, that’s exactly what my wife and I did this fall.
We rented our house and started home-schooling our 8- and 11-year-old boys in order to spend more than a year traveling around the world. Aside from making a rough outline of a route that takes us first through South America and then Asia, we’re keeping our options open and booking nothing in advance.
We’re carrying all our gear for the entire trip in backpacks, which is often called “backpacking,” and are mostly riding local buses, motorbikes, boats and/or any other local cheap transportation (maybe even a camel or elephant). As photographers, we all want to have the “right” gear for
