Looking Back (2021)
Stats:
Trip Duration - 106 days
Countries Visited - 15, Cities - 24
Italy: Rome, Casa Biondo, Venice
Switzerland: Gryon, Frick
Germany: Nuremburg, Berlin
Poland: Warsaw
Lithuania: Vilnius
Latvia: Riga
Estonia: Tallinn
Ukraine: Kiev (Kyiv), Chernobyl
Hungary: Budapest
Croatia: Zagreb, Zadar
Greece: Thessaloniki, Trikala
Turkey: Istanbul
United Arab Emirates: Dubai
Nepal: Kathmandu
China: Chengdu, Zhangjiajie, Xi’an
Distance Traveled -
by air: 18,485 miles (29,748 km)
by bus: 1,824 miles (2935 km)
by train: 3,556 miles (5,722 km)
by foot: (in progress, this will take some time to calculate)
(Rome 51.79 mi, Casa Biondo 8 mi, Venice 28.97 mi, Gryon 26.98 mi, Frick 2.15 mi, Nuremburg 19.32 mi, …)
Distance Walked per Day (avg.) - ((in progress))
[circumference of Earth is 24,901 mi, or 19,013 miles at the 40th parallel north]
Photos Taken - 5,621
Video Recorded - 10,750 seconds (about 3 hours)
Total Media - 46.1 GB
Total Cost - $7,200 ($68/day, average American spends $36/day)
Prep: $1500
Flights: $1300
Trains: $800
Bus: $150
AirBnB: $850
Hostels: $600
Misc: $2000
People Met (shared a conversation) - 79 (4 were miserable, 4 were by text + google translate)
Number of New Foods Eaten - 106 (same as the number of days by pure coincidence)
[8 unique pizzas, 5 local dal bhats , 28 over 3 days with James/Wan Kai Na (14 from dim sum alone)]
Times I Got Sick - 3
Pianos Played - 5
Journal Length - 179 hand-written pages
Blog Length - 62,518 words, approximately the length of a 125 page novel (excluding Journal)
At a Glance
Rome
Casa Biondo
Venice
Gryon
Frick
Nuremburg
Berlin
Warsaw
Vilnius
Riga
Tallinn
Kiev (Kyiv)
Chernobyl
Budapest
Budapest to Zagreb (misery)
Zadar
Zagreb
Thessaloniki
Trikala/Meteora
Istanbul
Dubai
Kathmandu
Chengdu
Zhangjiajie
Xi’an