San Diego Family Returns from Around the World Sail

SAN DIEGO — Ken and Margaret Crabill enjoyed the familiarity of watching the Super Bowl XLVIII in a house surrounded by friends, although the game didn’t offer much excitement. For the Crabill’s being in a familiar place was pleasant, especially when compared to how they’d experienced a previous championship game where they watched Japanese announcers detail the event from the TV screen of a British Expat club in Vanuatu, a remote island in the South Pacific. For 16 years, the Crabills, both dedicated football fans, watched every single super bowl game in a different country while living the life of a slow and detailed 16 year circumnavigation. In New Zealand, they watched the 1992 Super Bowl at 1 p.m. the next day in a restaurant after convincing an employee to turn their television on. In Thailand, they watched Diana Ross belting at the halftime of the 1996 Super Bowl at 6 a.m. over at the Whiskey A Go Go across from drunk college grads who had been partying all night long. In Kenya, they watched the Denver Broncos beat the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl XXXII at 3 a.m. in a closed casino with the building’s American Expat manager. In Israel,...