A Childhood Promise

The journey of a father and his son
From Beijing to Paris by train

This is the story of a promise given by a father to his son. Words the son would never forget. A dream he would keep alive, a plan he knew would someday be fulfilled.

It is the story of a boy who cried whenever his father, a renown photojournalist, would leave on one of his trips to distant places. Once, hoping that he could join him on his travels, the boy hid in his father’s suitcases.

One day his father said, “When you turn fifteen, we will leave together, just the two of us. We will travel far and explore the lives and cultures of other lands and their people. And we will seek to understand them, and to share with them.”

A Childhood Promise @ National Geographic Channel