Here are a few statistics from our trip:
- We were on the road 37 days
- Weight of my backpack’s combined weight: 18 + 5 = 23kg
- My weight at the end of the trip (according to the 50 year old scales in the Berlin metro): 56kg... but it’s ALL muscle. Really really!!!
- Weight of backpack as percentage of body weight: 41% (nb. Only 10-15% is acceptable)
- Hitch-hiked with 31 different people (thank you to you all)
- Camped at 4 petrol stations, on top of 2 mountains, next to 2 churches (once with police protection) and once in a woman's backyard
- Number of times we moved the location of our tent/illegal campsite (for fear of attack, bandits, rape, being run-over by out-of-control trucks, or the one time when a truck nearly fell on us from above): 12 times
- We managed to shower 19 times on our trip - not included the time we bathed in the river, the time we washed ourselves in the bathroom of a restaurant, or the bath we had in a cave which left us covered in calcium residue (bathing is supposed to make you cleaner)
- Longest stretch of time without bathing: 5 days
- I shaved once… and still haven't shaved
- Our trip cost us each less that 26 Euro per day, all inclusive, including flights
- Without the cost of flights, we spent about 14 Euro per day, all inclusive
- We had the use of a car for 5 days, which means we slept in the back with the seats down for 4 nights
- We were pulled over by police 3 times, once by a policeman hitching a ride for his friend
- I ate 14 monster-sized lahmacuns in Yerevan. 2 per day.
- Number of (glass) bottles of coke and ice-creams consumed: uncountable
- We purchased 4 long salamis. Only 3 were digestible.
- We ate bread and salami as a meal about 12 times
- I had the shits once, but it lasted 7 days.
- The most number of shits in one day: 17
- Number of times I shat on myelf: I’d rather not comment
- Stepped in animal shit 2 times: cow and dog.
- Stepped in human shit 4 times.
