- Days gone: 425
- Countries visited: 17
- Photographs taken: 27,230
- Average photos taken per day: 64
- Cartwheel photographs taken: 109
- Novels read: 24
- Days sick: 10
- Favorite country: Tajikistan
- Least favorite country: Tanzania
- Place with biggest culture shock: Moynaq, Uzbekistan
- Place with least culture shock: Amman, Jordan
- Biggest culture shock: The yak smell in Tibet, crippled beggars in India
- Surprisingly not a culture shock: Shared taxis in Kyrgyzstan, buses in Ethiopia
- Best sights: Petra, Jordan; Mt. Abu & Madurai, India; Samarkand, Uzbekistan
- Favorite place to live: Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
- Least favorite place to live: Northern India
- Best sunset: Kendwa, Zanzibar
- Best sunrise: Tsiribihina River, Madagascar; Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania
- Most overrated town: Khajuraho & Pondicherry, India; Stone Town, Zanzibar
- Most underrated town: Kampala, Uganda; all of SW Ethiopia; Dushanbe, Tajikistan
- Most interesting culture: Southern Ethiopia, Tibet, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
- Least interesting culture: East Africa
- Most sanitary country: Jordan
- Least sanitary country: India
- Most mosquitoes and cockroaches: Ethiopia
- Place most like how I pictured it: Varanasi, India
- Place least like how I pictured it: Lhasa, Tibet
- Hardest culture to understand: Egypt
- Best souvenirs: Bukhara, Uzbekistan; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Nicest people: Tajikistan
- Meanest people: Tibet, Uzbekistan, Northern Kenya
- Hardest country to travel in: Ethiopia, Tajikistan
- Easiest country to travel in: China, India, Jordan
- Worst roads: Mongolia north of Moron, Northern Kenya, D.R.C.
- Best local food: Ahmedabad, India; Jordan
- Worst local food: East Africa; Tibet; Tajikistan
- Best meat on a stick: Uzbekistan
- Best bread: Kyrgyzstan
- Most fun-sounding McDonalds items: McArabia, Jordan & Egypt; McAloo Tikki Burger & Chicken Maharaja Mac, India
- Most cheerful border guards: Uganda
- Most creepy border guards: Kyzl Art Pass, Tajikistan
- Most visited country: Kenya (4 times)
- Prettiest visa: Tajikistan
- Best skills learned: Taking a bucket shower, when to give up and when to persevere
- Most awe-inspiring moment: Potala Palace, Tibet; Climbing above Petra, Jordan
- Most frustrating moment: Finding transport in Tajikistan, applying for an Uzbek visa, figuring out when the Chinese border would open
Money Matters
- Total money spent: $21,625.45
- Total money spent on all transportation (incl. flights): $6,762.81
- Total money spent on flights: $3,900.42 (13 flights)
- Total money spent on lodging: $3,271.28
- Total money spent on souvenirs: $1,205.61
- Cheapest hotels: $0.69 (Marpha, Nepal); $2.27 (Tingri, Tibet); $2.63 (Dahab, Egypt); $2.84 (Dessie, Ethiopia)
- Most expensive hotel: $34.32 (Jambiani, Zanzibar)
- Shockingly overpriced hotels: Mumbai, India
- Guesthouse at Mount Everest base camp: $4.94
- Six pieces of meat on a stick: $0.31 (Tanzania)
- One banana: $0.08 (Kenya)
- Thanksgiving dinner: $6.18 (Pokhara, Nepal)
- Metro ride in Seoul, Korea: $1.04
- Metro ride in Tashkent, Uzbekistan: $0.13
- Metro ride in New Delhi, India: $0.35
- Metro ride in Cairo, Egypt: $0.18
- Metro ride in London, England: $3
- Cheapest postage stamps: $0.16 (Uzbekistan); $0.22 (Tajikistan)
- Entrance to Taj Mahal (Agra, India): $18.75
- Entrance to Registan (Samarkand, Uzbekistan): $3
- Student translator for Uzbek visa in Kyrgyzstan: $5.09
- Yoga instruction, room & board–Southern India: $11.25/day
- Movie–Bangalore, India (Music & Lyrics): $3.25
- Movie–Nairobi, Kenya (Spiderman 3): $4.41
- Movie–Kampala, Uganda (Oceans 13): $5.45
- Permit to visit mountain gorillas in D.R.C.: $300
- Number of Rangers protecting me in D.R.C.: 7