There are so many ways to summarise a year, especially one as eventful as 2012 was. A post of my best photos of the year is upcoming, but I always find it interesting to look at some of the numbers from the year as well.
Some are useful — number of miles flown, etc — and some I just find entertaining or feel like they really represented an important part of my year. Plus, it’s interesting to compare them to previous years — for instance, I visited a lot more countries last year but flew nearly 10,000 less miles. I consider that a win!
Flights: 27
Long haul flights: 9
Business class flights: 1 (Emirates upgraded me from Singapore to Dubai)
Flights cancelled because kicking the landing gear didn’t fix it: 1 (TAP Portugal from Madrid to Porto)
Miles flown: 49022mi (78435km)
Airports: 20 (London Heathrow, Stockholm Arlanda, Skellefteå, Singapore Changi, Perth, Brisbane, Christchurch, Sydney, Cairns, Dubai, Madrid, Porto, Brussels, Manchester, Humberside, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Gold Coast, Osaka, Sapporo New Chitose)
Countries: 8 (England, Sweden, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Japan)
New countries: 4 (Sweden, Portugal, Spain, Japan)
Days away from home: 58
Beds slept in while traveling: 21
Broken legs: 1 fractured tibial plateau
Travel insurance claims stemming from broken leg: 0 because I didn’t get it treated til I got home
Number of weeks spent on crutches: 9. It sucked.
Number of months spent wearing a knee brace 24/7: 5
Cancelled trips: 1 (Australian Open, again)
Frequent flyer miles redeemed: 20,775 (on Virgin to Cairns)
Trips won to NZ: 1
Blog posts written in 9 days for my NZ trip: 24 (plus a few after the fact)
Things that made me realise how much I love NZ: Pretty much everything
Instagram photos taken: 323
Photo books made out of NZ Instagram photos: 1
Car issues: 0 (no one ran into me for a whole year!)
Days taken off work to travel: 33
Days work gives me off per year: 20
Jumps into the snow from a boiling hot sauna: 1
Night skies seen filled with the northern lights: 0. Means I have to go back, right?
Partial solar eclipses seen: 1
Times nearly mugged because I was taking photos: 1
Trips that involved four-wheel-driving through knee-deep puddles and driving through bushfires: 1
Number of times I did a Texas accent on live Australian radio: 1
Attempts at snowboarding: 1
Visits to my grandparents: 2 (which might make up for not going to Texas at all)
Blog conferences attended: 3 (Nuffnang Blogopolis, TBU Porto, and TBEX Girona)
Sea turtles snorkeled with: 1
Times playing tennis: 0 (I miss it)
New cameras: 1 (the Olympus OM-D, my new favourite travel camera)
Unfortunate dips in the toilet by a phone courtesy of my hopping on crutches: 1 (and surprisingly, it still worked afterwards — mostly)
New phones: 1 (an iPhone 5)
Citizenship applications approved: 1
Citizenships acquired: 0 (since the Brisbane City Council is so slow about doing citizenship ceremonies — but not long until Jan 26 now!)
Number of books read: 13 (poor effort, but I just didn’t seem to have time this year!)
(Rough) number of photos taken: 14,000
What numbers do you think would give a good indication of how your year went?