2002 Reflections

    STATS

    Countries: 10
    Days: 188
    Books read: Chad: 17 Heidi: 20
    Different beers consumed: 54
    Rolls of film: 49
    Hours of Video: 10.5
    Digital Pictures: 336 (so beware when we offer to show you pictures!)
    Sunglasses consumed: Chad:4 Heidi:2
    Things lost: Chad:1 Heidi:5
    # of Tums/Pepto/Immodium/Cipro taken: 32/43/6/12
    Bedbug Infestation: Chad: 1 Heidi: 0
    Worm Infiltrations: Chad: 1 Heidi: 0 (sorry for all the gory detail in the last email, we were desensitized by the time we wrote it)

    Impressions

    Most Scenic: New Zealand
    Most Fascinating: Egypt
    Most Polluted: Vietnam
    Least likely to live there: Egypt
    Most likely to retire to: New Zealand (unless Heidi dies prematurely, Chad will thus be found on Koh Samui, Thailand).
    Best Cuisine: Chad: Thailand Heidi: Vietnam (when it was good it was great, but when it was scary it was SCARY.)
    Most Language Difficulty: Egypt (but still not bad)
    Scariest Roads: Vietnam
    Easiest to Travel Around: Thailand
    Hardest to Travel Around: Egypt
    Poorest: Cambodia (at least by our impressions)
    Most Expensive: Australia ($129 per day for the 2 of us)
    Most Inexpensive: Vietnam ($48 per day for the 2 of us)
    Favorites: Chad: Uganda   Heidi: Vietnam and Tanzania