Days- 261 days

Countries- 34 countries (35 for me because of going to Spain with Mum – my total country count is now 43) including NZ.

Beds- 60 beds for the fam, (67 for me as they didn’t come to Spain).

Sickness- C had a rash early on in Asia, I had a head cold in Thailand. BK had a quick tummy bug or something in Sri Lanka. Both kids got colds in London when I was in Spain. I put that down to not having their Mum to nag them about using hand sanitizer and washing their hands as soon as they get in the door from being out and about. This meant our extensive travel insurance was unused! Woohoo!!

Familiar faces seen- 24 and it was so lovely to see them all.

Flights- 19 flights (21 for me – Spain return)

The best and worsts for our flights are all the same as the 3 month stats except our best landing was the one back into Auckland. I was fortunate enough to walk through the Auckland airport halls to Duty Free with the pilot so I told him so!

 

Top 3 things I learnt.

I am not a teacher. Never again.

Juggling BK’s work with everything was much more difficult than both of us ever imagined. We had to be much more intentional about it.

I’m awesome at keeping my family on a budget. Yay me!

 

Roughest Day- Still that land crossing day from Thailand to Cambodia that went from bad to worse.

 

Best Day – So many highlights it’s very difficult to choose so I’ve chosen one for each continent.

Asia – The elephant experience in Thailand was a stand out.

Europe – Legoland still gets talked about a lot and was, strangely, enjoyed more than Disney (but that’s probably all to do with crowds and wait times).

 

Favourite Country.

Mine has to be split into continents again so  Asia – Taiwan & Singapore / Europe – Croatia

C loved Thailand & Sri Lanka

R has no idea

BK really enjoyed England!

 

And now the figures you’ve all been waiting for

Day to day living costs-  $44,933

Flights, 4x rental cars, Eurostar, vaccinations, travel insurance and the Camino tour- $21,438

Total trip cost- $66,371 ($254 a day or 63.57 per person per day)

 

#nailedit

 

Now onto the next adventure….

 

Team Knowles, over and out! ‍‍‍

 

(Disclaimer- this is not the entire cost of those months away, we still paid business overheads, storage, school fees and a bunch of other stuff at home BUT it would definitely be cheaper to be on the road than live our lives at home if we had ‘gotten rid of everything’).