Yesterday, I flew down to Florida to welcome the rest of my squad back to the States. Because I left Guatemala so quickly, I didn’t get to say goodbye to most of my teammates. It was so good to see my family again, even if it was only for 15 hours. It felt like I had never left them. Please keep them in your prayers as they transition back into life in America.
[saying goodbyes… “Bye buddy!”]
[my team minus Esther- she had to catch a flight]
On my flight down there, I decided to tally up some random stats from the year. I was fastidious about keeping track of all of our different locations (nerd), and I found a website that calculates total miles traveled, so the data listed is surprising accurate.
- 40,567 miles traveled around the world
- 15 countries
- 44 times packing up everything we own
- 47 passport stamps/visas (good thing I got those extra pages added)
- 15 flights
- 14 different airports
- 7 “long” bus rides (I only counted those that were longer than 8 hours)
- 5 train rides (each averaging 24 hours long)
- 15 languages
- 13 currencies
- 16 books read cover-to-cover
- 176 cold showers
- 79 bed-less nights
- COUNTLESS memories shared, laughs had, and friends made (cheesy, but true.)
[Team Concrete’s Route, other teams are mostly similar, but not exactly the same]
