Big Trip Wrap Up

We have been back in San Sebastian for about three weeks now. We will have more about our return in an upcoming post, but we wanted to do a quick "wrap up" post about the Big Trip.

Having written so much about the places we visited and the things we did, we don't have a lot to add about those topics. So, we thought we would provide a bit of overall information about our travels.

The trip covered 153 nights, which we spent in 52 different lodgings including three overnight flights. Our longest stay was in Kyoto (9 nights) and we had 16 one-night stays including the three flights. Our cheapest lodging (not including free lodging in various places) was in Hoi An ($30 a night), while our most expensive was as at the ryokan in Japan ($307 a night). 

We took 23 flights totalling 39,326 miles (63,289 kilometers); by comparison, the circumference of the earth at the equator is only 24,901 miles. Our longest flight was from Rome to Singapore (6,249 miles), while our shortest was from Honolulu to Maui (101 miles).

As for other transportation, we took trains in Italy, Australia, New Zealand and, of course, Japan; metro/light rail in Singapore, Australia, Japan and the US; city buses in Spain, Singapore and Vietnam; ferries in Austrailia, New Zealand and Japan; and taxis in Singapore, New Zealand, Vietnam and Japan. Finally, we rented nine cars between Italy, Australia and New Zealand. We definitely got around.

We honestly have no idea how many restaurants we ate in, but it was many. Our most expensive meal was, not surprisingly, in Maui, while our least expensive was our New Year's Eve pho in Dalat, which cost all of $5.50 for both of us.

Our favorite country by far was New Zealand, and we are plotting our return. Shana's favorite place was Kangaroo Island; Jeff can't decide.

Travelling for so long turned out to be easier than expected. We were never bored, we were sometimes overwhelmed, we were happy and felt fortunate to being doing something we had dreamed about for years. Overall, it was a great trip, and we hope you have enjoyed following along on our adventures. 

We will now return to our normal blog programming, but stay tuned for a possible second big trip coming sooner than we expected, which answers question, would we do it again? YES!

Hasta pronto,

Jeff and Shana