By The Numbers

We’re home! (OK, not really. We were home, and were too busy to finish things up, so we actually caught up on most of our writing during our vacation in Paris – and now we’re home again.)

The honeymoon has a happy ending, but the story has been told, and there’s not much more to say. Instead, here are some interesting numbers to help sum it all up:

# days traveling: 134 (19 weeks + 1 day)
# countries visited: 13 (Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Bali (Indonesia), Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Egypt, Italy, Greece, The Netherlands, and Iceland)
# continents visited: 5 (North America, Asia, Australia, Africa, Europe)
# airline flights: 24
# flights delayed more than 15 minutes: 0
# times they lost our luggage: 0
# times airlines rescheduled our flights: 3
# rainy days (meas. precip. at our location): Less than 10*
# days rain caused us to adjust our plans: 1 (No bike ride in The Netherlands)

*We had amazingly good weather, in spite of the fact that it was the rainy season in many of the places we visited. The largest typhoon in 30 years hit Fiji two weeks before we arrived. Flooding and 90 days of rain came to an end just a day or two before we arrived at Fox Glacier, New Zealand. There was flooding in Jaa and Kelvin’s neighborhood the day after we left Thailand. Even in the dry Greek Islands, there was no measurable precipitation until the day after we left, when it rained all day. Etc. On countless days, rain was forecast, but never materialized. The few times it did rain, we were usually spending the day indoors in a museum, anyway, or were in transit, or it was at night, so we were unaffected. We had phenomenal luck.

# iPhones stolen: 3 (including Jaa’s)
# blog entries: 70 (including this one)
# of words written in our honeymoon blog: about 45000
# honeymoon pictures posted on Flickr: about 5500
# video clips hosted on YouTube: 323 (not all published)
# minutes we spent watching TV: 15 minutes (watching unrest in Cairo)
# of jams: 5 (Fiji, Bali, Laos, Thailand, Greece)
# of “performances”: 3 (Ha Long Bay, Nile River)

Modes of transport:
1. Jet Airliner
2. Train
3. Rental car
4. Private vans, buses, shuttles
5. Public bus
6. Private car
7. Taxi
8. Tuk-tuk
9. Songthaew
10. Cyclo
11. Bicycle – rented
12. Bicycle – borrowed, no brakes
13. Train
14. Sleeper train
15. Subway
16. Ocean-going inter-island ferry
17. Fishing boat converted to ferry service
18. Long-tail canoe
19. Outrigger canoe
20. Canal boat with oarsman (girl)
21. Dahabiya (luxury river barge, pulled by tugboats or under sail)
22. Sailing yacht
23. White water inflatable raft
24. Jet boat
25. 4WD Jeep
26. Kayak
27. Junk
28. Slow boat
29. Speed boat
30. High-speed catamaran
31. Aquatic human chain, with life vests
32. Assorted tourist boats of all shapes and sizes
33. Pony cart
34. Elephant
35. Camel
36. Elevator
37. Escalator
38. Moving walkways
39. Dingy
40. Horse carriage
41. Electric golf cart
42. Motorbike
43. Back of a pickup truck
and of course,
44. On foot!