Our journey by the numbers

We're in the airport here in Siem Reap, Cambodia, about to board a plane and begin the final leg of our long journey home. After a daylong stopover in Seoul, Korea, we'll arrive in Seattle on Dec. 15th-- first time on American soil since we left for Swaziland back in June 2008. Are we excited? yes, very. Are we a little nervous? yep. Tired? uh huh.

Anyway, it hasn't been easy to update this blog since leaving Ethiopia, and I'm not prepared to attempt any narrative summary of travels-past at this late stage, so I'll not try. After all, we'll soon be seeing everyone in person. So instead, here's a numerical summary; a by-the-numbers look at our trip from Swaziland to this airport in Cambodia... we had some time on our hands while riding a bus yesterday and started counting things.

# of days on the road: 130

# of countries: 12 (including Korea; not including Bahrain 'cause we never left the airport)

# of different motels/guesthouses/hostels: 47

# of different campsites: 11

# of train rides: 6

# of boat rides: 19

# of (large) bus rides: 26

# of motorcycle rides: 2

# of taxi rides (we always try to avoid): 18

# of bicycle-rental days: 5

# of plane rides: 7 (including the 2 we're about to take)

# of packages mailed back to the USA: 8

# of times we got sick (combined): 6

# of sunglasses lost/broken: 5

# of islands visited: 16

# of bribes paid: 0

# of books read: 12 (6 each)

# of Hollywood movies viewed (in theater): 3

Gigabytes of photos taken: about 20

# of bottled-waters purchased (we always try to avoid): 1

# of transports shared with vomiting passengers: 5

# of times the vomiting passenger was one of us: 1

See you all very soon!!