Our Year In Numbers

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Days Travelled 303 We called it a year away. It was closer to 10 months, enforced by the lease we signed with tenants who cared for our home and cat, Pirate. It wasn’t always easy to keep going, and we may have come home earlier if we could have!
Forms of transportation 52 It turns out people have a lot of ways to get around. We’ve been sampling some of them.
Number of flights 75 We have been on too many flights this year!
Hours spent in the air 207 Really this is too many hours in the air.
Trees planted to apologize for our carbon footprint 35 One tree will absorb more carbon than we can all use in our lifetimes. But we planted more, in a forest area of Colombia that is being restored by local farmers with an NGO. Go mother earth!
Continents visited 6 All but the cold one.
Countries visited 25 There are just so many! We tried to see a lot, but only scratched the surface of our species’ amazing prevalence on our planet.
Beds we slept in 62 Too many hotels!
Meals eaten out 720 Eating out is not always easy. The food is salty, heavy and there’s usually too much of it. It took us a while to learn to only eat what we were actually hungry for. On the bright side, we didn’t have to do dishes much this year!
Meals cooked ourselves 180 Having an apartment with a kitchen was always exciting. The kids could make slime, and dinner, and we could shop for our own food and cook to our own tastes. This year we learned that the rest of the world considers us “health nuts.” In South Africa our guide told us, “I’ve never seen a family eat so much grass!”
Rolly bags + backpacks, each 1 We also packed a tiny duffel bag each for those times when our rolly-bags were too big to fit inside the small plane that was carrying us to a remote area. Sometimes we expanded and used a duffel as an extra carry-on, for instance when we had too much dirty laundry and not enough time to pack it neatly.
Water bottles used 3840 Most of the developing world just does not have tap water we could drink, and we each drank about 4 bottles per day.
Days until we return home 1 Cant wait!

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