Epilogue

The trip was everything we had hoped it would be and so much more. When planning you think of all the great places that you’re going to see but you have no “picture” of all the amazing people that you’re going to meet along the way.

During the trip we used a number of modes of transportation: feet, planes, taxis, camels, oxcarts, trains, buses, elephants, rickshaws, tuk-tuks, motorcycles, rafts, rowboats, ferries, dune-buggies, sleds, cars, mini-vans, pick-up trucks, and safari jeeps.

We thank God for getting back safely and particularly for keeping our little guy safe with his food along the way.

There were a few surprises for us, probably caused by us learning about Africa and Asia on TV's Discovery Channel:

• Africa was amazing with its mix of 1st world amenities and wild nature
• Beijing has impossible traffic and horrible air quality
• NYC, London and Paris remain the most special cities that we have visited

By the Numbers
1 – Circumnavigated planet
50,000 – Kilometers travelled
154 – Days away from home
12 - Countries visited
14 – Plane trips
4 – Overnight trains
25 – Organized tours
3 – Natural Wonders of the World
4 – Camels that we rode around the pyramids
5 – Mountains climbed
70 – days on the wrong side of the road
75 – Books read
1 – African tick that caused Deb a lot of problems
3 – times that Joe had ‘Delhi Belly’
2 – Lost hats
1 – Birthday while on the road
1 – Heck of a trip