Some of the details of our trip:
Number of days we were gone: 288
Number of nights in different places: 204 nights in 102 different hotels, 30 nights in 23 different campgrounds, 39 nights spent with friends, 14 nights spent "in transit" (10 on boats, 3 on planes, 1 on a train) and 1 night lost to the date line.
Number of countries visited: 20 Full List is here
Number of states and provinces visited: 31 and 9 Full List
Number of different restaraunts we ate at: 369(!)
Number of animals that pinched, bit or stung us: 4 (mosquitos, leeches, stinging flies, and Alaskan crabs)
Number of miles travelled: Over 82,000 - roughly 49,000 by plane, 23,000 by car, 5,000 by train, 2,500 by boat, and 2,000 by bus.
Number of boxes of junk mailed home: 14
Number that actually made it: 13...damn Austrian Post Office!
Thicknes of the mattress in the cheap hotel we stayed at in London: About 2 inches
Number of visits to Emergency Rooms: 1 (For Dina's back in New Brunswick, Canada)
Number of postcards we mailed: 117
Number of pictures we took: 1,016
Number of locals who asked to take our picture in China: 7
Number of times we crossed the U.S. / Canadian border: 12
Number of different currencies we confused: 15 Full List
Number of locals we met who told us they had a relative living in the U.S.: 23
Number of pictures, figurines and knick-knacks shaped like a duck in our B&B room in Bergen: 318
Number of times Brian ran to the bathroom our last day in Costa Rica: 29
Number of Norwegian Kroner a large pizza costs in Oslo: 282 (about $40)
Number of Turkish Lire for a Checken Kebab on the streets in Istanbul: 500,000 (about 40 cents)
Countries
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Canada
China
Costa Rica
Denmark
England
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Germany
Luxembourg
New Zealand
Norway
Singapore
Sweden
Turkey
United States
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States
Alaska
Arizona
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Hawaii
Kansas
Kentucky
Illinois
Iowa
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
Oregon
Pennsylvania
South Dakota
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virgnia
Wyoming
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Provinces
Alberta
British Columbia
Manitoba
New Brunswick
Nova Scotia
Ontario
Prince Edward Island
Quebec
Saskatchewan
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Currencies
Australian Dollar
Canadian Dollar
Chinese Yuan
Costa Rican Colon
Danish Krone
Euro
Hong Kong Dollar
Hungarian Forint
New Zealand Dollar
Norwegian Krone
Singapore Dollar
Swedish Krona
Turkish Lira
U.K. Pound
U.S. Dollar
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