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- 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
- Distance Traveled: 105,000 miles
- 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
How can you afford to get a hotel room for $5 in Bali? Your bargains are unbelievable!
Just my luck.
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