My Round-The-World Trip: By the Numbers

So many people have questions about this stuff – so here goes: the trip by the numbers! If I’ve left any out you’re curious about, just let me know!

Days: 120

Countries: 15
Canada, the Philippines, Cambodia, Myanmar, India, Jordan, Egypt, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Croatia, Italy, France, & the United Kingdom

Cost: $13,975.64
See the full details in this post.

Flights: 20

Cost of Flights: $2,872.98
Technically this includes the cost for 22 flights because I bought one round trip ticket I didn’t end up using!

Miles Traveled: 33,872

Bouts of Food Poisoning: 1
One of the many things I have Egypt to thank for. Shockingly, this was also at the Hilton. Never got food poisoning from God knows what kind of street food. But the Sharm el Sheikh Hilton? Yep.

Sinus Infections: 1
One of my two souvenirs from India (the other was a marble elephant).

Seas Swum or Sailed: 5
Sulu, Black, Red, Dead, and Adriatic

Photos Taken: 36,321
The actual number was higher, but this is how many currently remain on my hard drive… so this is after deleting a good few thousand.

Gigabytes of Photos: 137
To note, my hard drive is full. Thank goodness for the external one!

Pairs of Sunglasses: 3
I’m still very sad I left my Ray Bans on a bus in Myanmar. Then I got a great pair of replacements there… which broke in Egypt. So there I bought a great pair of Ran Beis (not a typo), which made it home with me!

Major Rivers: 7
Rhone, Seine, Thames, Nile, Irrawaddy, Danube, and Tiber

Cities: 59

Modes of Transportation: 21
Planes, Ferries, Trains, Subways, Motorbikes, Electric Bikes, Pedal Bikes, Walking, Taxis, Habal Habals, Jeeps, Tuk Tuks, Bicycle Rickshaws, Private Cars, Cruise, Chairlift, Hot Air Balloon, Camel, Ubers, Boats, and Busses

World Wonders: 4
The Taj Mahal, Petra, the Pyramids, and the Colosseum. I made it to all 8 before 30!

Hostels Stayed In: 19

Hotels/AirBnBs Stayed In: 26

Items Knocked Off My 30 Before 30: 17
I do need to go back and update the list with all of it!

Pounds Gained: 37
Not a typo. Whoops. #worthit #yolo #iblameeurope #gelato

Books Read: 27
You can see some of the books I read here (others to follow!)

Blog Posts: 125
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