In what will be the last 10K mile milestone we cross, on August 6th we reached 70,000 total miles for our trip.
The current breakdown is:
40,057 : Plane
13,865 : Motorcycle
7,031 : Train
6,071 : Car
1,333 : Boat
1,317 : Bus
397 : Foot
10 : Horse
For a total of 70,075 total miles, averaging 191 miles per day.
As a point of reference the circumference of the earth is 24,901 miles at the equator; so we’re just under 3 times around.
It’s also 238,857 miles from the Earth to the Moon, so we’re not quite a third of the distance to that.
Yesterday was our 365th day on the road.
We arrived back on American soil 22 days ago and despite having all the internet we could want and the ability to easily place domestic calls, we have been almost completely incommunicado.
Part of the reason may be trying to deny the fact that we’ve left the International portion of our trip behind us. The other part may have to do with filing every waking moment trying to cram in as much exploration as humanly possible as we finally see the trip coming to its inevitable conclusion.
Whatever the reason, we’ve explored the US with the same enthusiasm we’ve had for every other country: In the last 18 days we’ve ridden 4226 miles through Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and Washington.
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Here’s a series of signs we came across during our time trekking through the Annapurnas. After the first few days of walking the road stops and you start reaching villages where the only way to get anything in or out is on foot or by horse.
Mule trains are common, as are some small horses for getting around. Signs like these are usually posted just outside a village, asking riders to please dismount when passing through.
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Considering all the countries we’ve traveled to where “safe driving” means constantly honking your horn while driving like a madman (I’m looking at you here Vietnam) it’s amazing that we’ve gone as long as we have without any sort of traffic incident.
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*Part one of the story is here
Day 5: Brighton to Colac Bay
We started day 5 at our ocean-side camping spot in Brighton, a small beach town on the Southeastern coast of New Zealand. We knew we weren’t riding far today, so we spent the better part of the morning leisurely making a few sightseeing visits; first stopping to check out the Nugget Point Lighthouse.
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This is one of the creepiest places we’ve ever visited. It’s the Zoological Museum in St. Petersburg and it’s weird.
Really weird.
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