After writing the summary of my travels in 2011 and reading A Dangerous Business’ year by the numbers, I got a bit curious, so I did a bit of adding up and came up with the following stats on how 2011 treated me.
Flights: 18
Long haul flights: 9
Miles flown: 59222 (94755.2km)
Airports: 9 (Hong Kong, Singapore, Brisbane, Sydney, London Heathrow, Los Angeles, Houston Intercontinental, Auckland & Wellington)
Countries: 5 (Hong Kong, Australia, Singapore, England & USA)
Visits to my grandparents: 2
Miles flown by my mother to visit scattered family: 50700 in 10 flights (81120km)
Days away from home: 69
Beds slept in while traveling: 14
Roaming charges: $131.54 (Oops — $50 was for just trying to use the internet while in London)
Chest infections: 3
Travel insurance claims: 1
Cancelled trips: 1.5 (Australian Open in January, North Island skiing in September)
Frequent flyer miles redeemed: 67,500 (Air NZ Business Class – my mom’s miles) + 25,000 (Continental) + 66,000 (Qantas) = 158,500 total
Frequent flyer miles refunded: 24,000 (2 flights with no cancellation fee due to Brisbane floods)
Major floods: 1
Days spent covered in mud: 2
Wildfires nearly driven into: 1
Friend’s weddings missed: 3
Number of car issues: 6 (flat tyre/bent rim, engine software bug, backed into twice, keying & sun visor fell off)
Longest week of work: 83 hours
Number of major releases at work: 1
Adorable wallabies fed and/or patted (this one’s for you, Nancy): 4 or 5 (including the world’s sweetest wallaby at Lone Pine and a little baby that I didn’t feed at Currumbin)
Rugby games attended: 3 (Reds semifinal, Bledisloe Cup & Australia vs. USA in the RWC)
National parks visited: 3 (Lamington, Springbrook, and Glass House Mountains)
Ferris wheels ridden: 1 (Singapore Flyer)
Jet skis ridden: 1
Times wakeboarding: 1 (poor effort)
Photographs taken: More than 5440 (there’s a few I still haven’t transferred)
Lunar eclipses photographed: 1
Digital cameras used: 5 (yes, I know it’s an addiction)
Film cameras used: 3
Rolls of film developed (in class & at home): roughly 14 (including 1 dud)
Rolls of film that need to be developed: 5
Black & white prints in my portfolio: 9
Websites designed: 2 (1 from scratch, 1 from a theme)
Travel blogs started (well...relaunched): 1