15 countries
24 flights
hundreds of hours of bus, car, boat, truck, rickshaw, jeepney, scooter and bicycle rides along the most amazing landscapes shared with even more amazing people
one RTW ticket
one backpack
5 kg of cloths
one red dress from Buenos Aires
one pair of flip-flops and one pair of good (but really good) trekking boots
one stolen iPod
one lost pair of sunglasses
two diving curses and 19 dives registered in my little dive book
many, many new friends all around the world
oh, so much delicious food and wine and freshly prepared juices and just ordinary local beer
50 very itchy fire ants' bites and countless just itchy mosquitoes' bites
three antibiotic pills, when some aspirins and carbon tablets haven't helped anymore
some 10.000 photos
to many hours spent on internet in the most dodgy internet cafes struggling to select and upload photos for this blog
miles of coral reefs and sandy beaches
days of walking in the most pristine nature and swimming in the most clear seas
half a million of penguins, 20 whales, 5 whale sharks and thousands of all those colorful fishes you see on TV
a couple of afternoons spent in the huge Asian shopping malls
hours and hours of pleasant conversation with people of all kind of nationalities, religions, ages and professions
10 days of hard core Vipassana meditation
some 100 different beds in as many different towns, villages, beaches and national parks
plenty of funny stories, enough to bother my friends for the rest of my days with
countless priceless impressions and memories
and much more
to make it short
one year of "PURA VIDA"
all for the price of:
a Peugeot 307, HDI, 1.6, 120 Hp, silver color, 5 doors, 3 years old, sold in September 2008
(costs for the RTW thicket excluded)
