A Long Way Home: My 6-Month Vagabond Stats

A Long Way Home: My 6-Month Vagabond Stats

Everybody said that I was traveling the world. I think not. Traveling the world, to me, is bumping from one place to another, crossing continents and visiting at many countries as possible, many of which were randomly selected.

I’m not traveling the world as I am going home, a long way home in deed. The 1st home means where I came from before, and where my parents lived. The last home is where I live now. And if it worked out and I crossed to Vietnam from China, the title would be “Home, Home and Home.” It takes so long because I wanted go overland as much as possible. If I had more time, instead of flying in and out of Australia, I would to do it by ships.

Prague – San Francisco Stats

4 continents (Europe, Asia, Australia, America)
11 countries + 2 territories (Czech Republic, Germany, Russia, Mongolia, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Taiwan, USA, UK)
6 months (July-January)
4 seasons ( Australia is below the equator, thus I got spring as freebie) (summer, autumn, spring, winter)
7 flights (Dresden-Moscow, Hong Kong-Singapore, Kuala Lumpur-Melbourne, Sydney-Taipei, Taipei-San Francisco, San Francisco-London, London-Prague)
11 trains (Moscow-Yekaterinburg, Yekaterinburg-Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarks-Irkutsk, Ulaanbaatar-Zamiin Uud, Beijing-Datong, Datong-Xian, Xian-Shanghai, Shanghai-Nanjing, Nanjing-Hangzhou, Hangzhou-Shenzhen, Shenzhen-Hongkong)
6 long-distance buses/van/jeep (Prague-Dresden, Irkutsk-Olkhon, Ust-barguzin-Ulan Ude, Ulan Ude-Ulaanbaatar, Erlijan-Beijing, Sinagpore-Kuala Lumpur)
2 ferries (Olkhon-Ust-Barguzin, Kowloon-Lantau)
2 feet

36500 km / 22680 miles total.

A large chunk of it was done overland from Moscow to Hong Kong. If I wasn’t in a hurry to start my trip, I could start the overland journey from Prague by taking a train. If I didn’t have to go Australia, I’m sure I could make all the way down to Southeast Asia entirely by land.