Most things you own are worth less the longer you keep them. A travel log is worth more. Start it when they're two, and by the time they're eighteen it holds something nobody can buy and nobody can replace — every journey they have ever made, and one number that says how far.
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Why it exists
The trips happen. The record never does.
Every family means to keep track. The photos scatter across phones, the tickets go in a drawer, and by the time a child is ten nobody can say where they went when they were four. Travel apps exist, and they live in a folder on page three of a home screen — opened the week they're installed and never again.
How it works
Four taps, and the number goes up.
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Scan the Globe
It's on their desk, holding their pens, with their name on it. Point any phone at the code underneath — no app, and no account for the child.
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Say where you went
The date is already today and the starting city is already filled in, so most trips are one question: where did you go? Then a plane, a train, a car or a boat.
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Watch the number move
The distance is added, the globe draws the new journey as a curve, and you find out something true about the place they just visited.
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Keep going for years
India tip to tip. Delhi to London. A quarter of the way around the Earth. Each one arrives on its own, without being chased.
What makes it work
Why it survives when apps don't.
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One number, honestly earned
Every journey, added up with real great-circle distance — adjusted for whether you flew, drove or took the train. Not a guess, and the same figure every time.
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Milestones that mean something
“She's 96% of the way around the Earth” is a sentence you say out loud to other people. A hundred and twenty of them, from a marathon to the Moon.
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Load the years you've already done
Paste the trips they've already taken, in whatever words come to mind — rough dates are fine. Ten minutes at setup and the Globe already knows them.
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Something true about each place
A food, an animal, a word in the local language, one number that surprises you. Written for a seven-year-old, and never invented on the spot.
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It works because it's right there
No notifications, no streaks, nothing nagging. The reason to log a trip is that the object is sitting on the desk when you get home.
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It's theirs to take
Turn on a share page for the family WhatsApp, or download the whole log as a spreadsheet. A lifelong record you can't export isn't really yours.
Yours to keep
The point is to hand it over one day.
This was built for a parent logging on a toddler's behalf — and for the moment, fifteen years later, when you hand over a record of every journey they ever made and they realise you kept it the whole time. It works just as well for a grown-up who travels for work. Own the object once; the log keeps growing, free, for as long as they have it.
Questions
Good to know.
No. It's possession-based — whoever is holding the Globe can scan it on any phone and log a trip. You sign in once yourself to set it up, and an optional four-digit code stops anyone else adding journeys.
It's real great-circle distance between the two cities, then adjusted for how you travelled — flights track about 6% longer than a straight line, roads about 25%. We store both figures, so the number stays honest and can be recalculated if we ever refine those.
Edit or delete any journey from your account at any time. We don't verify anything — it's your log, not ours — but we will quietly ask if a drive looks like it's three thousand kilometres, because one slip shouldn't spoil the total.
Yes, and it's the first thing we'd suggest. Paste them in any order — “Delhi to Goa Dec 2019, Delhi to Dubai 2021” — and we'll turn them into journeys for you to check before anything is saved. “Summer 2019” is a perfectly good answer.
Only if you decide it should be. The share page is off until you switch it on, and the link carries a random suffix so it can't be guessed. Turn it off and the link stops working the same moment.
Essentially no — that's deliberate. The Globe on the desk is the reminder. The one exception is an email a week before a trip you've logged for a future date, with a short list of things worth packing, and you can turn that off too.