Some Stats

• Countries visited: 23
• Cities visited: 108
• Flights taken: 40 flights, with longest flight travel day being London => Honolulu (19 hours)
• Buses/trains/boats taken: 43 segments, with the longest travel day being Iguazu => Salta (27 hours by bus)
• Languages spoken: 13 different ways to say “hello” and “thank you”, and “beer please”
• Casualties of travel: stuff lost, stolen, or plain driven into the ground from repeated use.
  • 1 car (Nissan Tsuru) stolen in Mexico :(
  • 1 pair swim trunks (Rich) stolen in Belize while drying on clothes line
  • 1 belt (Rich), lost on an airport shuttle in Mexico
  • 1 umbrella (Rich), forgotten on a table in Hue, Vietnam
  • 3 pairs of sunglasses, one lost jumping off a boat in Belize (Rich), one broken jumping into a river in in Laos (Ana), one dropped too many times to see through (Rich) and subsequently misplaced (Ana)
  • 1 jeans (Rich), tossed with too many holes to wear in public :o)
  • 2 pairs underwear (Rich), torn to shreds from washing too often
  • 2 pairs of flip-flops (Rich/Ana), worn through the soles
  • 1 backpack (Rich) with torn zipper… replaced in Vietnam
  • 1 winter parka (Ana), lost in Budapest airport
• Cheapest booze: Bia Hoi beer corners in Saigon at $0.20 a beer
• Most $$$ spent: Spain because of the Euro, expensive cost per day (36% over budget), and high number of days (35 days)
• Least $$$ spent: Hong Kong because of low number of days (2 days)
• Most expensive per day: Fiji (131% over budget) because of small puddle jumper planes to get to outer islands and scuba diving trips.
• Least expensive per day: Bangkok (43% below budget) because we just sat around waiting for visas, otherwise Laos with $10 a night rooms.
• Cost breakdown: Percent of expenditures broken down by Category…

  Category	% Cost
  Lodging	27 %
  OneWorld Explorer Ticket	14 %
  Regional Airfare	12 %
  Transportation (other)	13 %
  Breakfast	2 %
  Lunch	4 %
  Dinner	9 %
  Booze	5 %
  Other (activities)	14 %
  Total	100 %

• Country cost breakdown: Percent of expenditures broken down by Country… Final costs with airfare and all excursions came in at 1% under budget over a total of 315 days.

  Country	% Days	% Cost	% Over budget
  Spain	11 %	15 %	35 %
  USA	5 %	5 %	15 %
  Mexico	5 %	5 %	-5 %
  Caribbean	3 %	4 %	20 %
  Belize	3 %	4 %	29 %
  Peru	5 %	4 %	-21 %
  Argentina	10 %	7 %	-29 %
  Chile	6 %	5 %	-25 %
  New Zealand	8 %	8 %	1 %
  Fiji	2 %	4 %	131 %
  Australia	6 %	10 %	73 %
  Hong Kong	1 %	1 %	30 %
  Philippines	6 %	6 %	-2 %
  Thailand	3 %	2 %	-43 %
  Vietnam	7 %	4 %	-40 %
  Malaysia	2 %	2 %	-8 %
  Laos	3 %	2 %	-35 %
  Morocco	6 %	5 %	-11 %
  Portugal	3 %	3 %	7 %
  Czech	1 %	1 %	4 %
  Slovakia	1 %	1 %	-6 %
  Hungary	1 %	1 %	-7 %
  UK	1 %	1 %	-4 %
  Overall			-1 %

• Web Blog: some data points for the blog and picasaweb… These all come from the google analytics service.
  • 502 visits, 114 unique visitors, average 7 visitors per day
  • 2791 published photos (of nearly 10,000 taken)
  • 68 blog entries
  • strangest originating country for page visit: Iran (1 hit)

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