All year I kept track of random things so that I could look back and see all I did. Enjoy some crazy, random statistics from this year!
Travel stats:
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Hours spent in a plane: 95
- Hours spent in airports: 73
- Hours spent in a bus/van/car: 326
- Hours spent on trains: 52
- Number of beds I’ve slept in: 44
- Number of cities I’ve been in: 52
- Number of passport stamps: 44
- Months in AC: 1.5
Total miles traveled: 53,318 (That’s over 2 times around the entire Earth!)
Country Superlatives:
Best food- Thailand
Worst Traffic- Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Strangest smells- Bangkok
Hottest month- Cambodia
Weirdest things I ate- Scorpion (Thailand), Monkey (Zambia), cow lung (SA)
Most beautiful beach- Bali, Indonesia and Da Nang, Vietnam
Most beautiful mountains- Bosnia
Worst sickness- Stomach flu (puked for the first time in 6 years)
Best architecture- Budapest
Coolest trees- South Africa
Countries I set foot in this year:
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Japan (traveled through)
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Indonesia
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Philippines
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Thailand
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Cambodia
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Vietnam
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Turkey (traveled through twice)
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Croatia (traveled through)
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Montenegro
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Serbia (traveled through)
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Kosovo
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Romania
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Hungary
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Zambia
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Zimbabwe (traveled through)
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Lesotho
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South Africa
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United Arab Emirates (traveled through)
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United States!!!
Names I’ve been called this year (fun fact- “Erin” isn’t exactly a name in other countries, so for most people it was very hard to pronounce. I only met 2 other people named Erin this year!):
Erin
Ellen
Helen
Irene
Erena
Aryan
Ren
Ernie
Karen
Orange
Alan
Thank you for journeying with me!! Onto the next chapter!
