### 5 Months in Numbers ###

# of months on the road : 5

# of countries traveled: 9

# of hostels slept: 33

# of cities and villages seen: 64

# of buses ridden: 39

# of hours on said buses: 224 (approximately 1/10 of  

   total travel time)

# of dollars spent: 3,300

# of times transported in the back of a pick-up: 6

# of host families: 5

# of llamas eaten: 1

# of days spent living off crackers or ham/cheese

   sandwiches: 21

# hammocks swung in: 14

# of fights with my travel companion: 1

# of fights resolved by pretty fireworks: 1

# of times I've felt homesick: 3

# of times I've been sick (103 fever or more): 3

# of times I (or Megan Rae) convinced myself I  had a deadly disease: 4

            * rabies: 1

            *typhoid: 1

            *malaria:1

            *giardia: 1

# of times Bech has taken me to the hospital for afore mentioned deathscares: 2

# of times I've actually had any type of disease: 0

# of girls who were nice to us: 13

# of girls who I wanted to throw my show at: 537

# of boys who were nice to us: 537

# of boys who I wanted to throw my shoe at: 13

Number of times I'v been completely overwhelmed:

            * by people : 7

            * by poverty: 13

            * by fear: 4

            * by beauty: 33

            * by happiness: At least once a day (152 +++)

Here's to another 2 months of living with our lives on our backs....