The Number Game

I’ve been in Nicaragua for about a month and a week now, which means I’ve officially crossed over into the second half of my trip. It’s sort of strange. Before, when people told me that they had been traveling for over a month, I found it hard to believe that could ever be me. It seemed so far away. Now, when I tell people that I’ve been moving, by myself, for as long as I have, they say, “Wow, that’s a while.”

Yeah, I guess it is. But it’s not over yet. However, in celebration of the completion of the first half of my trip, I’d thought I’d compile a little numbers list, a collection of the hard facts (okay, so I may have stretched the truth on some of these, but not as many as you might think) that have made this trip what it is.

6: The number of once-a-week anti-malarial tablets I’ve taken. From one week before I left to this morning.

0: The number of hotels or hostels I’ve been at where the internet hasn’t crashed or cut out once.

8: The highest number of different people I’ve had to ask to find just one building.

68: The number of geckos watched crawling along hostel walls like moths to a light.