You cannot summarize a journey in lists and numbers, but I tried to anyway.
Items I Lost or Threw Away
- Pair of wooly black socks (one was lost in the laundry, so I gave up the other in defeat)
- Sunglass case (thrown away in frustration of uselessness…to be continued)
- Eyelash curler (replaced by a far superior one)
- Scissors (taken by security)
- Used pens
- Glasses (failed to retrieve them from the hostel where I KNOW they are)
- Umbrella (you shouldn’t put anything you like on the outside of your backpack)
- Light (it broke)
Items My Backpack Broke
- My umbrella flashlight (I later lost this umbrella…guess that makes sense)
- My light (which is why I threw it away…seriously, where can I find a light that won’t lose its battery on a trip because of a button that turned on inside my backpack??)
- Clarisonic (buttons are dumb)
- Sunglasses (bent because I threw away my sunglasses case…I’m sensing a pattern here)
- Watch necklace (is now a pocket watch because the chain broke)
Transportation by Type
I haven’t used this mode of transport…YET!
- Train Trips: 12
- Bus Trips: 11
- Car sharing Trips: 3
- Flights: 14
- Taxis: very few, which is more than I should have…except in SE Asia
- Local Metro/Bus/Boat/Tram/Whatever: many, and I’m not done
- Tuk-Tuk Trips: not enough, never enough
- Elephant: 1, I sat on its head, not on a platform
- Zip-line: 1 course
- Stranger’s Car: 1, but more to come
Books I Read
- All’s Well That Ends Well
- Troilus and Cressida
- The Master and Margarita
- Anna Karenina (finished after trip ended)
Journals Used: 2 ½
Countries Visited: 11, 7 for the first time
To be continued in 2015…
The Cash Odyssey 