• Years on the road: 25
• Distance Traveled: 95,000 miles
• Number of cities visited: 120
• Photographs taken: 9,509
• Average photos taken per day: 50
• Cartwheel photographs taken: 42
• Novels read: 16
• Days sick: 50
• Number of love letters received from monks: 1
• Favorite country: China
• Least favorite country: India
• Place with biggest culture shock: India
• Place with least culture shock: Thailand (overall)
• Biggest culture shock: Indians using cow dung for roof insulation
• Surprisingly not a culture shock: Squat toilets
• Best sights: Great Wall of China & Eiffel Tower in Paris
• Favorite place to live: Melbourne, Australia
• Least favorite place to live: Chengde, China
• Most overrated town: Vang Vieng, Laos
• Most underrated town: Beijing, China
• Most interesting culture: Balinese in Bali, Long neck people in Chiang Mai, Japanese
• Least interesting culture: USA
• Most sanitary country: Japan
• Least sanitary country: India
• Place most like how I pictured it: Bangkok, Thailand
• Place least like how I pictured it: New Delhi, India
• Hardest culture to understand: India and Pakistan
• Best souvenirs: Beijing, China
• Nicest people: Thai and Japanese
• Meanest people: bloody Germans and Hong Kis (it’s a cultural thing in Hong Kong)
• Hardest country to travel in: India
• Easiest country to travel in: Thailand and Malaysia
• Worst roads: India, and the border around China and Laos
• Best local food: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• Worst local food: Muang Sing, Laos
• Best hamburgers: Hamburg, Germany
• Best skills learned: Eating with hand; bargaining with Thai using calculators
• Most awe-inspiring moment: Watching sunrise from Mount Kinabalu, Malaysia
• Most frustrating moment: Trapped in massive 3-hour jam in Jakarta

Money Matters

• Total money spent: $$ I lost count
• Cheapest hotel: US$5 (Bali, Indonesia)
• Most expensive hotel: US$100 (Tokyo, Japan)
• Average hotel in China: US$4.50
• Cheapest meal: US$0 lunch at a monastery (Bali, Indonesia)
• Most expensive meal: US$25 set menu (Kyoto, Japan)
• Cheapest postage stamps: US$0.05 (Malaysia)
• Cheapest public toilet: US$0 (ChengDe, China)
• Most expensive public toilet: US$2 (London)
• Entrance to view Mao Tze Dong’s body - Beijing, China: US$0.86
• Bribe to Cambodian border guard to cross by river into Laos: US$1
• Bribe to Thai official to cross Malaysian-Thailand border: US$5