Packing lists, daily budgets, accommodation strategies, transport notes, internet cafe prices — everything we learned the hard way over 474 days.
Two backpacks, sixteen months. What we carried, what we sent home, what we wished we'd had.
Real expenses by country. Cheapest day: $8. Most expensive: $90. Average: about $25.
Where you can show up at the border, where you can't, costs, photos required.
Hostels, guesthouses, the occasional homestay, one night in a Bedouin tent.
Trains, buses, planes, ferries, camels, one Trabant.
Internet cafe rates around the world in 2001. A time capsule of the early web.