This whole trip I have been keeping a record of how much time we have spent in transit, below is my record! I know it's a bit small, but hopefully you can read most of it. This information doesn't count my trip home, which will add quite a few hours to the airplane section. Also these numbers don't incude getting to the airport, which took anywhere from 10 minutes to 5 hours every time.
Total Hours Spent in Transit: 376 hours or almost 16 days (Not including going home)
Total Typs of Transportation: 18
Total Countries Visited: 13 (not including Italy and France in a few days)
Total Typs of Transportation: 18
Total Countries Visited: 13 (not including Italy and France in a few days)
Worst Travel Day: Thailand to Cambodia border crossing. I had just gotten my whole back tattoo a few days before and wasn't able to carry my backpack on my back. Mike Desmond carried it for a good while, but the amount of time I carried it in my arms threw my back out, not to mention my back was extremely sore from the tattoo. We spent 13 hours on a bus getting to Phnom Penh, then spent 4.5 hours waiting in line and walking around trying to cross the border.
Longest Travel Day: Our route was rerouted to the Philippines when Thailand was having all of the flooding. Headquarters had already purchased our tickets to Bangkok when we heard the news, so we had to figure out a way to, cheaply, get to Manila on short notice. We ended up taking a bus from Ntebbe, Uganda to Kampala, flyingto Doha, Qatar for a 5 hour layover, then flying to Bangkok for a 24 hour layover at the airport, then fly to Manila. In total we spent 51 hours in transit.
Favorite Form of Transportation: Boda Boda!! In Kenya people would put a little seat cushion on the back of their bike and pedal you into town. It was just fun, relaxing and usually hilarious (especially the time I could Americanize the trip by bringing a cup of coffee). I also really loved taking the motorcycles in Uganda and Rwanda, also called a 'boda boda' or piki' (motorcycle in Swahili).
Worst Form of Transportation: Either the smelly (B.O. and grime) and far too packed Matatu's in Africa or the similiarly jam packed Mashrootkas in Ukraine. Just too packed, dirty and untimely.
Longest Travel Day: Our route was rerouted to the Philippines when Thailand was having all of the flooding. Headquarters had already purchased our tickets to Bangkok when we heard the news, so we had to figure out a way to, cheaply, get to Manila on short notice. We ended up taking a bus from Ntebbe, Uganda to Kampala, flyingto Doha, Qatar for a 5 hour layover, then flying to Bangkok for a 24 hour layover at the airport, then fly to Manila. In total we spent 51 hours in transit.
Favorite Form of Transportation: Boda Boda!! In Kenya people would put a little seat cushion on the back of their bike and pedal you into town. It was just fun, relaxing and usually hilarious (especially the time I could Americanize the trip by bringing a cup of coffee). I also really loved taking the motorcycles in Uganda and Rwanda, also called a 'boda boda' or piki' (motorcycle in Swahili).
Worst Form of Transportation: Either the smelly (B.O. and grime) and far too packed Matatu's in Africa or the similiarly jam packed Mashrootkas in Ukraine. Just too packed, dirty and untimely.
