- Days on the road – 161
- Countries visited – 9 (if you include 5 hours in Brazil)
- Times became violently ill – two and a half (once in northern Chile, once in Bolivia, and something weird for a few hours in southern Peru)
- Days lost due to sickness – half (hiking cut short in Bolivia due to bowel issues)
- Times an animal pooped on us – three (two birds, one snake)
- Number of embassy/consulate visits – seven
- “Work days” planned – 23 (once per week)
- Work days in reality – maybe 7?
- Hiking days – 17
- Days spent on a night bus – 12
- Total travel time – 374 hours
- Travel time in days – 15.6
- Miles covered – 12,472
- Total pictures & videos taken – 5,106
- Average of photos/video per day – 31.7
- Combined weight loss – 9 pounds
- Biking attempts – 3 (two in Chile, one in Colombia)
- Moto rides – only 1 somehow
- Horse rides – also only 1
- Haircuts – 4 (all Omar)
- Times crossed in and out of Argentina – 8
- New animals eaten – 4 (vicuna, llama, guanaco, guinea pig)
- Iguanas who tried to fight me – two point seven
- Iguanas who won a fight with me – 3
- Times arrested – somehow zero
- Total blog posts – twenty-two
- Total blog views – negative seventeen (with many demanding their money back)
- Costs per country
- Most expensive country: Chile
- Cheapest countries: All but the southern cone basically
- Most deceivingly cheap country that is really expensive: Ecuador (if you wind including the costs of the Amazon & Galapagos – or the ‘honeymoon’ period as I justified to our financial advisor, which is also me)
- Most deceivingly expensive country that is really cheap: Argentina – the generally tolerated black market exchange rate is your friend.
Final Route
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