When I first returned home it was obvious that most of my readers were anxious for that big number—my total expenses over 14 months. It’s been a struggle to motivate myself to step up to the demands and tally my expenses but I’m finally almost done. It wasn’t an especially difficult or time consuming task—most of you know I write down all of my expenses every day on the road. The difficulty came in facing that number which would most likely be comparable to the cost of a new car.
I don’t have that number for you yet because I’m still adding up Kenyan and Tanzanian expenses and it’s after midnight. But I’m excited that the total is, so far, less than I was expecting. Africa was more expensive than Asia, which was expected, but I’m surprised that I spent so little in Rwanda. While I was there it seemed very expensive but it turned out to have a much small daily average than Uganda because of big ticket items like my $95 rafting trip. I also expected London to be expensive, maybe $70 per day, but my ticket to the musical Chicago helped to boost the daily average to $100. Remember, at that price point I was sleeping on a top bunk in a room with eleven strangers. I won’t elaborate on my $389 tab for one day in The Democratic Republic of the Congo other than to say it was worth it.
4 responses to “Final(ly) Expenses”
14 months asia and africa plus airfare? I’m going to say $28,500.
Interesting. At the moment my poll on the right is almost evenly divided.
I’ll guess 22,000. It’s money well spent. You’ll have memories of your travels forever, a new car would be basically worthless in 10 years.
New car versus 14 months of wonderous travels. Hard one that ;).