The Race, in Numbers
Beds slept in, including airplanes, buses, trains, tents,
hotels, hostels, floors and churches: 52 as of 11/22/10 (The night I slept in
my own bed)
Airplane to NZ, launch tent, bed 1 at El
Rancho, bed 2 at El Rancho, tent, gym, chapel in Auckland* Tiadora’s, Darwin base, troopy, woolaning, roger’s,
palumpa, Darwin house, airplane/Malaysia, KIM Base in the phiilppines, floor of
nursery in Philippines*Malaysia hostel,
YWAM base Cambodia, baray village homestay, Angkor hotel*YWAM base Bangkok,
wangdarb church, VIP house, chantaburi church*flight
to Kenya, milimani, tent at ostrich farm, naroosara, milimani*bus to Tanzania, Tanzania bed 1, Tanzania bed 2, safari*adrift base, st. john’s bed 1, kalawa, buginyanya,
ndogo, st john’s bed 2*milimani*Turkish air flight to Ireland, Dublin tent* Casa shalom*Amigo
Hostel in Budapest*train 1 to kiev, Kiev
train station, train 2 to Simferopol, church in Saky, train 3 to kiev, hostel
bed in kiev* Hotel room in NYC.
Nights in my tent: 36
nights out of 323
Months I used my sleeping mat: 6
Months where I had a “Real Bed” for the whole month: 4-Philippines,
Uganda, Romania, Hungary, Ukraine
Days without running water: 32
Days without ANY electricity: 10 *This does not include the
days where we had a single exposed bulb as light but could not use electricity
for any personal things.
Months where generator was source of all electricity:
2-Camboda & Kenya
Months with hot running water for showers: 6.5 (New Zealand,
Australia, Philippines, 15 days in Kenya, Romania, Hungary, Ukraine)
Months without hot water: 4-Cambodia, Thailand, Tanzania and
Uganda
Months with potable (drinkable) water from the tap: 5
Months we lived without air-conditioning: ALL, except for
sleeping in Australia 2 of the 3 weeks, and two nights in a hotel in Cambodia.
Weirdest place slept: Probably the troopy in Australia. Or
maybe the Kiev train station, where the police made us move every hour and a
half until 2am.
Weirdest thing eaten: Fried grasshopper and fried silkworm,
given to me by a prostitute in the Red light District of Bangkok.
The World Race: ALWAYS AN ADVENTURE 🙂
