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Milestones:
200 days of travel
February 11th, 2010
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200 days of traveling have come and gone! Here’s the latest numbers:
- 40095 kilometers traveled, over land and sea (Equal to just over once around the equator!)
- 971 hours spent in transit
- Countries visited: 21
- Distance breakdown: 56% ship, 30% train, 7% bus, 6% car, <1% other
- Time breakdown: 67% ship, 17% train, 7% bus, 5% car, 3% foot, 1% other
More than once around the equator! And we broke the equatorial milestone on the 200th day, with a motorbike tour around Vang Vieng. How cool is that.
Check out the breadcrumb for the latest routes.
Milestones:
150 days of travel
December 23rd, 2009
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After 150 days of traveling, here’s the latest tally:
- 35,594 kilometers traveled, over land and sea
- 856 hours spent in transit
- Countries visited: 16
- Distance breakdown: 61% ship, 30% train, 6% car, 3% bus, <1% other
- Time breakdown: 73% ship, 16% train, 4% car, 3.5% foot, 2.5% bus, 1% other
At last we've arrived in Asia. We're really excited to be here, and are starting to adjust to the stifling heat/humidity combination.
Check out the breadcrumb for the latest routes. Also, we’ve just posted four new albums on the photos page, from Alexandria, Dubai, Mumbai and Cochin.
Another milestone: today is our 100th day on the road. Some interesting numbers so far:
- 18,530 kilometers traveled, over land and sea
- 362 hours spent in transit
- Countries visited: 10
- Distance breakdown: 47% train, 36% ship, 11% car, 5.5% bus, 0.5% other
- Time breakdown: 45% ship, 31% train, 10% car, 7% foot, 5.5% bus, 1.5% other
Still goin’ strong! Right now we are in the Tuscan countryside, staying with Meghan’s cousin Shirley and her husband Carlo in a beautiful house in the hills. Not a bad way to celebrate.
Check out the breadcrumb for the latest routes.
Milestones:
50 days of travel
September 13th, 2009
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Yesterday was our 50th day on the road. Hooray! To date, we’ve traveled 10,043 km over land and sea. That’s 1/4 of the earth’s circumference, but we’ve only scratched the surface…
Our path has been tracked with a handheld GPS unit, and all of our tracks can be seen on our Breadcrumb page.


