Fun with Numbers - Final Counts

Counts Updated 7/29/2009

Days on the road: 285
Number of cities visited: 69
Number of countries visited: 11
Number of prearranged visas needed: Rutvik 5, Kelli 2
Number of places stayed: 79
Number of flights: 18
Number of trains: 7
Number of long distance buses: 27
Hours spent in public transport: 648 (via plane, chauffeur driven car, dhow (abra), rickshaw (tuk tuk), taxi, songthaew, shikara, bus, public ferry, motorbike, houseboat, local train, bicycle, Easy Riders, human powered cycle rickshaws, 4x4 shuttle, Land Cruiser jeep, matatu)
Number of native languages encountered: 20 (English, Arabic, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Thai, Burmese, Lao, Khmer, Vietnamese, Tibetan, Pahari, Punjabi, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Zulu, Swahili)
Kelli’s milkshake and ice cream count: 81... and we lost track
Rutvik’s cell phones lost (and broken) count: 4 (Darn that public transport!)
Kelli's cameras broken count: 1 (Ziplining with camera on the wrist)
Number of times badly scammed: 3 ((1) Thai "accident" en route to a party on Ko Pha Ngan causing us to pay for two exorbitantly expensive cab rides instead of just one, and (2) Miraculously the cab's meter showed about 7 times the fare we had expected) (3) Durban cab driver rigged his meter and there was no way we were getting out in some random spot in that city!!
Number of blatant scam attempts foiled: too many to count
Number of white guys with Thai "weekend girlfriends": 743 (out of Thailand now...)
Number of books read: Rutvik 20, Kelli 33
Number of movies watched: 55
Number of movies Kelli slept during: 13
Number of mozzie bites: Way too many (fortunately very few in northern India...and very low malaria risk in South Africa - yay!)
Number of Indian aunties and uncles acquired: Lost count after day three
Number of servants regularly working at Rutvik’s 800 sq ft flat in Bombay: 8
Number of holy places visited: 30 (2 mosques, 5 Hindu temples, 3 Jain temples, 2 churches, 1 synagogue, 13 Buddhist wats/pagodas, 1 midnight mass at Le Meridien, 1 Caodai temple, 1 Holy Ganges, 1 Sikh temple)
Number of holidays celebrated: 10 (Diwali, Indian New Year, Aunty’s 50th birthday celebrated multiple times, Christmas, New Year's Eve, Tet, Valentine's Day, Holi, Easter, Rutvik's birthday) Number of holidays missed in the US: 10 (Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Eve, Valentine's Day, Easter, Mother's Day, Memorial Day, Father’s Day, Fourth of July)
Number of beer brands tried: 19
Number of KPMG locations found: 3 (Bombay, Ho Chi Minh City, and Durban)
Number of visits to American chain restaurants: 44 (McDonalds, Pizza Hut, Baskin Robbins, Subway, Domino's, and Swensens..... McD's and Pizza Hut have so many veggie options!!)
Number of hours of yoga: 148
Number of animals ridden: 5 (elephant, camel, ostrich, bullock, horse)