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Title: One Year Off

Subtitle: Leaving It All Behind for a Round-the-World Journey with Our Children

Author: David Cohen

Narrator: Kevin Stillwell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-10-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Have you ever wanted to take a year off from your life? A meandering, serendipitous journey around the world with your family? It sounds impossible. But one day, David Elliot Cohen, co-creator of the best-selling Day in the Life and America 24/7 book series, decided to make this dream a reality. Over the course of six months, he and his wife sold their house, cars, and most of their possessions. He closed his business and pulled their three young children out of school. With only a suitcase, a backpack, and a passport per person, the Cohen family set off on a rollicking round-the-world journey filled with laugh-out-loud mishaps, heart-pounding adventures, and unforeseen epiphanies. In Botswana, the Cohens's tiny motorboat is charged by a hippo. In Zimbabwe, lions ambush a buffalo outside the family's tent. In Australia, their young daughter is caught in a riptide and nearly pulled out to sea.

In One Year Off, you can join the family on a trek up a Costa Rican volcano, cruise the canals of Burgundy by houseboat, and ride ferries through the Greek Islands. Later, as the Cohens wander further off the tourist trail, you can drive through the villages of Rajasthan, traverse the vast Australian Nullarbor, and discover the charms of Cambodia's Angkor Wat and the hidden shangri-las of northern Laos. Over the course of these adventures, the Cohens learn to live as a family twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week and enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to spend time together without the distractions of modern life. The author rediscovers the world through his children's eyes and gains new perspective of his own life. This humorous, heartfelt story is the next best thing to taking the trip yourself.

Members Reviews:

Escape or get prepared

Like the author's TS Elliott quote about winding up back where you started but seeing with fresh eyes, this is both the book's journey and hopefully yours, as the reader. Journey the world without the inconveniences; Laugh, feel inspired, and wonder what is around the next bend.

If you are an avid traveler and have lived abroad, you might find yourself remembering your own journeys or be inspired to go on a new one.

In the wrap up, where the author astutely says, that it takes time to percolate the lessons of the year, he reminds us that there is this ever present journey....right here..life. Do it well with purpose and integrity.

Thank you David and family... I don't know you but really enjoyed the book read from on a recent trip from the outskirts of Sienna and SW France to the shores of Santa Barbara.

Best book in it's category

I've read most of the books in this genre (dozens) and found One Year Off one of the best if not the best one. The other books are dry and more of a how-to writing. While that could be helpful, the writing gets stale as technology and the world changes. Also, it's just not that much fun.

One Year Off is more of a human interest story about what happens when a family takes off and travels the globe temporarily putting their "regular life" on hold to explore the world.