Thursday, January 24, 2013
Asia by the Numbers
Travel
Flight Segments: 10
Buses: 23
Trains: 3
Ferries: 9
Canoes: 2
Longtails: 10
Bicycle Days: 10
Motorbike Days: 13
Motorbike Kilometers: 1,000+
Motor Vehicle Crashes Witnessed: 3
Traffic Citations: 3
Police Bribes: 2
Time Zones: 6
Countries: 8
Islands: 12
Number of Different Accommodation: 55
Health and Hygiene
Hillary Legit Sick Days: 10 (7 gastrointestinal, 3 tonsillitis)
Jordan Legit Sick Days: 11 (all gastrointestinal)
Hillary Injuries: started trip with full arm cast from bike wreck in Seattle, 1 sprained ankle
Jordan Injuries: 1 sprained wrist (motorbike scuffle), 1 abscess on ankle (lanced and drained in
guesthouse)
Hillary Weight in Seattle: 120lbs
Hillary Weight in Singapore: 104lbs
Jordan Weight in Seattle: 222lbs
Jordan Weight in Singapore: 192lbs
Anti-Malarial Pills Taken: Zero..
Haircuts: one haircut each, three face shaves for Jordan
Most Consecutive Days Showerless: 12 for Jordan, 6 for Hillary (both during Everest trek)
Laundry*
Nepal: 2
Thailand: 1
Laos: 1
Cambodia: 1
*These numbers only reflect when we sent out our clothes to be cleaned by local services. We washed individual articles of clothing in the sink if they got too wretched. Its been 125 days.. Get over it. We are Gross.
Theft, Lost, Broken
US Dollars: 42 stolen
Smartphones: 1 stolen
Thai Baht: 50 stolen
Headlamp: 1 stolen
Earrings: 1 pair lost
Sunglasses: 1 lost in the Andaman Sea by Hillary, 1 lost on Singapore bus by Hillary
Sunglasses: 1 broken in half by Hillary, 1 broken by Jordan
Hill’s Underwear...: 1 pair came back from laundry with a square hole cut into them in Nepal
(thrown away), 1 pair lost in Thai laundry
Jordan’s FlippyFloppies: sewn back together twice, glued three times
Hillary’s FlippyFloppies: one pair left in Nepal, one pair worn out in SE Asia, one new pair in
Indonesia
Reading
Jordan Books: 16
Hillary Books: 16
*Only 4 books read by both of us
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Oh noes, not the birthday Ray Bans??
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