February 19, 2010
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stalling for time
We got back from our trip on Tuesday (at 4 a.m.), and the week has been full of jet lag, moving to a new office building, getting caught up on work, starting to sort and weed out pictures from the trip, and so on, so for now, instead of a full trip summary, I will just tick off a few points about the trip.
Total luggage weight: 85 pounds
Number of flights: 7
Number of hours, door-to-door from Palau back home: 23
Number of hotels: 4
Number of light switches in one of the hotel rooms in Palau: 41
Number of books I read: almost 6
Number of times I checked email: 1
Hours of TV watched: 0
Number of dives: 15
Number of sharks and mantas: lost count
Number of stars visible from the dock in Yap: innumerable, 180 degrees of Milky Way
Number of mosquito bites: not going to think about it
Amount of trip awesomeness: infinite
Number of pictures taken: 300+Here’s one to start with:
Comments (3)
nice.
that should be on my itinerary . . . baby steps:)
glad you go back safe!
That’s the LOST island.
@czarinaviv - seriously, Kanga and I were commenting for much of the time on Yap that someone from the show must have been to Yap. Tropical paradise, lots of crashed planes, total isolation, abandoned radio tower… We didn’t see the black smoke (fortunately).