- Days gone: 185
- Countries visited: 7
- Photographs taken: 9,303
- Average photos taken per day: 50
- Cartwheel photographs taken: 42
- Novels read: 16
- Days sick: 3
- Number of love letters received from monks: 1
- Favorite country: Myanmar
- Least favorite country: Vietnam
- Place with biggest culture shock: Beijing, China
- Place with least culture shock: Thailand (overall)
- Biggest culture shock: Chinese people spitting everywhere
- Surprisingly not a culture shock: Squat toilets
- Best sights: Great Wall of China & Angkor Wat temples (Cambodia)
- Favorite place to live: Tokyo, Japan
- Least favorite place to live: Chengdu, China
- Most overrated town: Vang Vieng, Laos
- Most underrated town: Beijing, China
- Most interesting culture: Tribal people in Myanmar, Laos & Western China
- Least interesting culture: Thailand
- Most sanitary country: Japan
- Least sanitary country: China
- Place most like how I pictured it: Bangkok, Thailand
- Place least like how I pictured it: Xiahe, China
- Hardest culture to understand: China
- Best souvenirs: Kengtung, Myanmar
- Nicest people: Myanmar
- Meanest people: Vietnam/China (with China it’s a cultural thing)
- Hardest country to travel in: China
- Easiest country to travel in: Thailand
- Worst roads: The border around China and Laos
- Best local food: Hoi An, Vietnam
- Worst local food: Muang Sing, Laos
- Best hamburgers: Saigon, Vietnam
- Best skills learned: Eating with chopsticks & bargaining with Chinese hand signals
- Most awe-inspiring moment: Looking out over The Great Wall of China
- Most frustrating moment: Trying to find a shirt that fits me in Xi’an, China
Money Matters
- Total money spent: $10,188.29
- Total money spent on all transportation: $2,642.24
- Total money spent on flights: $1,468.32
- Total money spent on lodging: $1,463.92
- Total money spent on souvenirs: $745.92
- Cheapest hotel: $1.22 (Damenglong, China)
- Most expensive hotel: $30 (Hoi An, Vietnam)
- Average hotel in China: $4.31
- Cheapest meal: $0 lunch at a monastery (Kyaukme, Myanmar)
- Most expensive meal: $25 set menu (Kyoto, Japan)
- Cheapest postage stamps: $0.05 (Myanmar)
- Public toilet in Lanzhou, China: $0.03
- Entrance to view Mao’s body–Beijing, China: $.86
- Bribe to Cambodian border guard to cross by river into Laos: $1
- Wooden conical hat–Kengtung, Myanmar: $0.33
- Movie–Hsipaw, Myanmar $0.33
- Entrance to Shan palace in Hsipaw, Myanmar, meeting the prince: $1.10