I thought it would be fun to quantify some things about our trip. It is interesting to look at it this way because I sure thought we took more than 4 train rides, but given that three of them were at least 12 hour rides (and one was about 16 hrs), I think it just felt like more. It also turned out that boats were our main way of getting around. Makes sense since we spent so much time on islands. Also, if you’re interested this Google map has all of our stops and details the route we took on our trip.

These stats are for each of us; we each took 4 trains rides, 12 bus rides, etc. Except for the # of massages, which is a total: Lori – 19; John – 1.

A few other stats:

• Average $ per hotel/per night – $42 (if we exclude Thailand, it was $30 avg/night.)
• Average $ for a 1 hour massage – $6
• # of nights spent sleeping on board a boat – 2
• # of nights on sleeping on a bus or train – 4
• # of cases of intense food poisoning – 2 (1 each)
• # of cases of dysentery – 2 (Both Lori)
• # of cords/electronics we left behind in hotel rooms – 3
• # of items stolen from us – 0

And I had to share my favorite t-shirt souvenir (from Vietnam). “Mao, Ho Chi Minh and Fidel walk into a bar ….”