The Glass is Half Full

We are officially halfway through our family adventure.  As expected, some days we feel we have been gone an eternity and some days it feels like we left just yesterday.  We have had some amazing experiences.  We have collected memories we will remember forever.  We felt we needed to put together a first half superlatives list along with some travel stats.

Our Trip By the Numbers So Far:

– Days Traveled = 136

– Countries Visited = 10
(New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, India, Kenya, Egypt, Turkey)

– Continents Visited = 4

               – Miles Traveled = 33,518!

– Different Beds Slept in = 34

Superlatives for the first half of Rut To The Ledge Adventures

Favorite Form of Transportation –

Suzanne: Safari Landcruiser in Maasai Mara, Kenya

Mitch: Tuk Tuks in Bangkok, Thailand (Honorable Mention to passenger ferries everywhere)

Luke: Jet Raider Ferry in Auckland, New Zealand

Most Unique Food We Ate –

Suzanne: Egg Chocolate in Hanoi, Vietnam

Mitch: Fish Amok in Siem Reap, Cambodia

Luke: Egg Chocolate in Hanoi, Vietnam

Most Disgusting Meal We Ate –

Suzanne: Fried Chicken Feet in Hong Kong

Mitch: Dinner Buffet at Mondial Restaurant in Siem Reap, Cambodia

Luke:  Dinner Buffet at Mondial Restaurant in Siem Reap, Cambodia

Place You Will Find Me if I have to Disappear –

Suzanne:  Koh Yao Noi, Thailand

Mitch: Sailboat floating around the Gulf of Thailand

Luke:  Great Barrier Reef in Australia

Most Overrated Place –

Suzanne: Taj Mahal in Agra, India

Mitch: Agra, India

Luke: Mondial Restaurant in Siem Reap, Cambodia

Most Pleasantly Surprising Place –

Suzanne: Hoi An, Vietnam

Mitch: All of Vietnam

Luke: Great Barrier Reef in Australia

Place Most In Need of a Million Pressure Washers –

Suzanne: Delhi, India

Mitch:  India (Honorable Mention to Cairo, Egypt)

Luke: Temples of Angkor in Siem Reap, Cambodia

Best Meal –

Suzanne: Zabb E Lee Cooking School meal in Chiang Mai, Thailand

Mitch: Thai Green Curries in Chiang Mai, Thailand (All were great)

Luke: Breakfast Buffet at Le Meridien Phuket, Thailand

Best Activity –

Suzanne: Snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Mitch: Scuba Diving in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia (Honorable Mention to Safari in Masai Mara in Kenya)

Luke: Working at Elephant Nature Park in Chiang Mai, Thailand

Least Likely Place to Return to –

Suzanne: India

Mitch: India

Luke: Delhi

Favorite New Food –

Suzanne: Bun Cha from Hanoi, Vietnam

Mitch: Egg Coffee from Hanoi, Vietnam

Luke: Chicken Satay in Thailand

Best Airline –

Suzanne: Etihad Airways

Mitch: Air New Zealand

Luke: Air New Zealand

Best Day so Far –

Suzanne: Boat Tour and Kayaking the Islands around Koh Yao Noi, Thailand

Mitch: New Year’s Eve 2015.  Seeing the sunrise and sunset on the last day of the year and going scuba diving with my brother in Thailand

Luke: March 5^th, 2016 – Spotting a leopard while on safari in Kenya

Worst Day so Far –

Suzanne: Traveling sick from Agra to Delhi to Abu Dhabi to Nairobi.  A rough 36 hours of travel

Mitch: Second day in Delhi touring the Old City and thinking we weren’t going to survive three weeks in India

Luke: Taking the train from Hanoi, Vietnam to Tam Coc, Vietnam and people smoking in the train cars.  GROSS!

Travel Gadget I Could Not Live Without –

Suzanne: Amazon Kindle (Honorable Mention to XE Currency App on the Iphone)

Mitch: IPhone 5 Charger Case.  We would be lost many times from a dead phone without it.  Thank you Matt Griessel for the gift!

Luke:  Amazon Kindle

Very excited for more adventures to come in the second half of this epic journey.  Thank you all for following us.  Please feel free to share ideas or suggestions for the second half of our trip.  We will be in Turkey for two weeks, Croatia for 3-4 weeks, Italy for one month, France for one month, a stop in Barcelona for Luke and England for our final month, returning home in early August.