Three-Quarters Done

Our family has now been through:

• 9 months of travel
• 19 airplane rides
• 13 countries visited
• 21 SIM cards
• 5 long distance train rides
• 32 boat trips (including one paddleboat)
• 1 hot air balloon ride
• 1 paraglide trip
• 2 donkey rides
• 4 bicycle rickshaw rides
• numerous vikram rides
• numerous tuktuk rides
• lots and lots of car rides
• too many to count near-miss car crashes
• 3 doctor visits
• 6 rounds of Cipro
• 1 slipped disc
• 4 stitches
• Lots of ibuprofen
• 1 pair prescription glasses
• 2 pairs sunglasses
• 9 beaches
• 1 waterspout
• 2 safaris
• 33 lions
• 0 tigers
• 20 bullets shot with an AK 47 (not at the animals)
• 2 Kindles
• 1 iPhone
• 2 pairs of scissors (taken at security)
• two baseball hats
• 10 pairs of flipflops
• 1 pair sneakers
• 6 swimming suits
• 2 dive certificates
• 8 angry phone calls to AT&T (still ended up with $600 bill)
• Every phone store between Nairobi and Ho Chi Minh City
• 4 Turkish rug sellers
• 1 Indian rug seller
• 11 hours with rug sellers
• 1 sales pitch (they all say the same damn thing)
• 0 rugs purchased
• 5 boxes home
• 1 offer to “make you a man” (Bangkok)
• how many beers

Three more months to go.  I just wonder if I’ll remember to put the toilet paper in the toilet and not the trash when we get back.