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

• 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…