40,000 miles

I am now sitting back on the east coast of the United States and starting to add up all of those whacky cab rides, rough flights, wet boat trips, and long treks.  31,000 miles by plane, 5,000 miles by car and bus, 3,000 miles on trains, 500 miles by boat, and at least 500 miles by foot.  By my math that puts us at about 40,000 miles travelled over the last seven months.  Not too shabby.  A lot of this trip was up in the air when we took off on that first flight.  Our original around-the-world tickets only had about a dozen stops.  Most of those stops ended up being hubs for other trips and exploration.  In the end the basic route ended up something like:

New York, USA > Chicago, USA > Tokyo, Japan > Nara, Japan > Osaka, Japan > Kyoto, Japan > Tokyo, Japan > Bangkok, Thailand > Surat Thani, Thailand > Koh Phangan, Thailand > Koh Tao, Thailand > Surat Thani, Thailand > Bangkok, Thailand > Siem Reape, Cambodia > Phnom Penh, Cambodia > Pakse, Laos > Vientiane, Laos > Vang Vienne, Laos > Vientiane, Laos > Bangkok, Thailand > Singapore > Kuala Lumpur, Maylasia > Bali, Indonesia > Jakarta, Indonesia > Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Maylasia > Kuala Lumpur, Maylasia > Bangkok, Thailand > Kolkota, India > Kathmandu, Nepal > Lukla, Nepal > Kathmandu, Nepal > New Delhi, India > London, England > Paris, France > Lyon, France > Milan, Italy > Venice, Italy > Rome, Italy > Naples, Italy > Palermo, Sicily, Italy > Scaccia, Sicily, Italy > London, England > Oxford, England > Guitting Power, England > London England > Reykjavik, Iceland > New York, USA

There were plenty of side trips along the way that I can not even come close to nailing down in any sort of coherent list here.  But the basic map of the trip looks something like this...

Everest Base Camp Trail

Just off the flight to Lukla, we meet up with our Sherpa, Ang Kami, and our porter, Raj Kuhmar, and start our hike.  No rest, just on to the Khumbu trek up the Everest Base Camp Trail.  Its an easy trek at first which gives you plenty of time to soak it all in and comprehend the fact that you are hiking in the footsteps of George Mallory, Sir Edmund Hillary, and Tenzing Norgay.  However, we decided to skip EBC itself since it was not the time of year when all of the climbers set up the tent city in their bid to tackle the mountain, but we would veer off the trail after a few days and head up the Gokyo route for its better views of Everest and Lhotse than EBC itself.

A plane, a bus, a ferry, a boat, a little bit of walking and a lot of motivation

Looking forward to our long stay in Thailand as it seems to be a really unique land with the culture to match.  Its also terribly cheap which is an adorable little quality for a country to have when you are a traveler without a job.  But there is a special excitement in the amongst us for our stay on Koh Phangan out in the Thai sea. Its a long trek to get out to this little rock and it all begins with a flight to a southern province of Thailand called Surat Thani and rolls into a tangled mess of buses, ferries, and Thai long-tail boats but ends with us setting foot on a warm sandy beach of a coastline of only palm and coconut trees completely unobstructed by modern architecture with the exception of only the occasional hammock between those trees swaying in the breeze. 

A series of tubes

Life is complicated.  Routing your city with two overlapping subway grids makes it even more complicated. Way to go Tokyo.

Japan tour