Last updated: May 10th, 2012
Average Daily Cost
- (including airfare, transportation, accommodation, food, tours, courses and absolutely everything else we’ve spent money on, for 2 people): $56.05 CAD
Transportation:
- Days traveled: 309
- Countries visited: 10 (plus about 8 hours in the Bahamas, but we won’t count that)
- Border crossings: 16
- Total distance traveled: 25535 km
- by plane: 7238 km on 4 flights
- by bus/automobile: 8585 km on 96 buses/colectivos/pick-up trucks/vans/tuk tuks
- by train: 50 km on 2 trains
- by boat: 9662 km on 32 boats
- by plane: 7238 km on 4 flights
Accommodation:
- Average accommodation cost: $11.82 (CAD)
- Most expensive: $78 (CAD) for dorm beds in Paris (but it included breakfast and supper!)
- Least expensive (excluding free places): $3.65 (CAD) in San Pedro La Laguna, Guatemala
- Number of different beds slept in: 57
Number of nights in/on:
- Private Rooms: 143
- Apartments: 73
- Dorms: 54
- Five star cruise ships: 14
- Work exchange programs: 11
- Friends’ Homes: 5
- Couch Surfer’s Homes: 5
- Private Islands: 1
- Buses: 1
- A Volcano, watching the sun rise: 1
- Airports: 1
Meals:
- Average daily food cost: $9.34 (CAD)
- Meals cooked/eaten in: 55.5%
- Meals eaten out: 34%
- Meals included with accommodation/tours: 9%
- Free meals: 1.5%
Health:
- Weight lost:
- Ashley: 34 pounds
- Mike: 22 pounds
- Most consecutive days without showering: 3
- Days sick:
- Ashley: 17
- Mike: 3
Items Lost/Gained:
- Items lost/unintentionally left behind/stolen: 9
- Ashley’s hat lost (Isla de Mujeres, Mexico on Day 2)
- Mike’s water bottle lost (Palenque Ruins, Mexico on Day 22)
- Camp soap accidentally left behind (San Pedro La Laguna, Guatemala on Day 69)
- Nikon Coolpix digital camera stolen by pickpocket (Xela, Guatemala on Day 72)
- Ashley’s North Face quick-dry t-shirt missing (somewhere between Xela and Rio Dulce, Guatemala, Day ?)
- A PADI bag with all of our diving books, slates, divemaster t-shirt and spare underwater camera enclosure weights stolen off the overhead compartment of a bus (between Monteverde and Puntarenas, Costa Rica, Day 237)
- Ashley’s Nalgene water bottle lost (out a bus window, somewhere between Esteli and Somoto, Nicaragua, Day 245)
- Ashley’s Kindle broken by self (Antigua, Nicaragua, Day 274)
- Mike’s wallet pickpocketed along with $15 CAD during Semana Santa procession (Antigua, Guatemala, Day 276)
- Items gained: 15
- Deck of Cards (Isla Holbox, Mexico on Day 7)
- Wallet for Ashley (San Pedro La Laguna, Guatemala on Day 39)
- Headphone Splitter (Xela, Guatemala on Day 70)
- External DVD Writer (Xela, Guatemala on Day 75)
- Canon PowerShot SD1300 IS (Xela, Guatemala on Day 75)
- Tupperware container for business cards (Livingston, Guatemala on Day 91)
- 2 Captain Morgan’s Dive Shop t-shirts included with course (Utila, Honduras on Day 125)
- Mares Puck Dive Computer (Jewel Cay, Honduras on Day 172)
- Potato Masher (Jewel Cay, Honduras on Day 172)
- Asus Eee PC Seashell Series netbook (Jewel Cay, Honduras on Day 185)
- Underwater camera enclosure for Canon PowerShot SD1300 IS camera (Jewel Cay, Honduras on Day 185)
- xMini portable speaker (Managua, Nicaragua on Day 213)
- Skirt & top for Ashley, given to her by Ashley’s mom (San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua on Day 229)
- Flip flops for Ashley, found for free at a hostel (San Jose, Costa Rica on Day 240)
- Replacement Kindle for the one that was broken (Fort Lauderdale, Florida on Day 282)
- Dress for Ashley (Nassau, Bahamas on Day 285)
- Silk sleep sheets for European hostels & Camino de Santiago (Barcelona, Spain on Day 302)
Other:
- Photos taken: 4522 and counting
- Books read: 73
- Postcards sent: 28
- Souvenirs purchased: 0
- Cribbage games won:
- Ashley: 14
- Mike: 11
- Accumulated cribbage points:
- Ashley: 2368
- Mike: 2310
- Mountains Summited: 4
- Indian Nose (1800 m), San Pedro La Laguna, Guatemala
- Volcan San Pedro (3020 m), San Pedro La Laguna, Guatemala
- Volcan Santa Maria (3772 m), Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
- Volcan Telico (1061 m), Leon, Nicaragua
- Total Time Spent Underwater: 74 hours 30 min
- UNESCO World Heritage sites visited: 12
- Chichen Itza, Mexico
- Uxmal, Mexico
- Campeche, Mexico
- Palenque, Mexico
- Tikal, Guatemala
- Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System, Caye Caulker, Belize
- Leon Cathedral, Leon, Nicaragua
- Copan Ruinas, Copan, Honduras
- Antigua, Guatemala
- Works of Antoni Gaudi, Barcelona, Spain
- Banks of the Seine, Paris, France
- Palace and Park of Versailles, Versailles, France
Holidays spent abroad:
- Mike’s 29th Birthday (July 31, 2011) – banana bread and a carton of wine in San Pedro La Laguna, Guatemala
- Guatemalan Independence Day (September 15, 2011) – checking out the Independence fair in Xela, Guatemala
- Ashley’s 27th (Champagne) Birthday (September 27, 2011) – ice cream cake, banana bread, and champagne in Coban/Semuc Champey, Guatemala
- Thanksgiving (Canadian) & Celebrations for Belize’s Colombus/Pan American Day (October 10, 2011) – stewed chicken, rice & beans, and coconut pie in Caye Caulker, Belize
- Halloween (October 31, 2011) – checking out the local kids’ costumes at Jewel Cay, Honduras
- Remembrance Day (November 11, 2011) – underwater moment of silence at 11 am while scuba diving in Utila, Honduras
- Christmas Eve (December 24, 2011) – shared a dinner of raost chicken, stuffing, homemade perogies, and eggnog with friends on Jewel Cay, Honduras
- Christmas (December 25, 2011) – diving & turkey dinner with our landlord on Jewel Cay, Honduras
- New Year’s Eve (December 31, 2011) – quiet night in our apartment (Ashley had the flu) listening to music and fire crackers at midnight on Jewel Cay, Honduras
- Valentine’s Day (February 14, 2012) – a little Valentine’s rice and some bull-riding (spectators only) at a local Valentine’s festival near Hacienda Merida, Isla Ometepe, Nicaragua
- St. Patrick’s Day (March 17, 2012) – planting and harvesting fruits and veggies at an organic farm in El Salvador, then chatting with new friends and drinking some homemade chicha (organic, non-alcoholic fruit beer) near San Andres Ruinas, El Salvador
- Good Friday/Easter (April 6 and 8, 2012) – watching Semana Santa processions, getting pickpocketed, and wandering the streets looking at the beautiful carpets in Antigua, Guatemala
I am being very sincere when I say I am terribly jealous of your nerdiness….these stats are killer!!!!
Thanks Skott.
Nothing nerdy about it! We got to know this stuff. Thanks for the info. I would say so far you are doing well considering how early in your travels you are. The first few weeks always cost the most.
We’ve discovered Guatemala is a lot cheaper than Mexico. We’re paying less here, and two thirds of our expenses are our Spanish Classes.
That toally sucks that someone stole your camera! Good thing you guys have two. Are there a ton of people in Xela for the festival?
I’m too scared to bring out my good camera,there are a tonne of people. Not sure if we’re going back to the fair grounds or not.
Damn, this Thailand trip has seen me put 20 pounds on. I miss living in South America, I have gotten so chubby these last 3 months. Crazy. When you have a motorbike you get soooo lazy. Can’t wait to sell it and get walking again. Even the gym doesn’t help us here!
We’ve been getting a bit lazy lately too. We’ve just spent that last 3 weeks or so in Belize and Honduras soaking up the sun on islands and diving. It’s a lot of fun, but a man needs the odd mountain to climb to help keep the pounds off.
Love the stats and other journey tickers! I’m headed to Xela tomorrow, will look through your posts for some suggestions.
If you are heading to Xela, you have to check out the Xocomil Water Park
Thanks! That looks so great, I could use it about now in Guatemala City.