My Travel Facts

  • Years on the road: 26
  • Distance Traveled: 105,000 miles
  • Number of cities visited: 132
  • Photographs taken: 10,439
  • Average photos taken per day: 30
  • Cartwheel photographs taken: 42
  • Novels read: 16
  • Days sick: 70
  • 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

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