Trip Summary
And that was the end of the Round-the-World Trip 2001.
Here are some statistics:
 | 25,536 miles flown |
| 54 hours 40 minutes total flying time |
| 26 days, 14 hours and 30 minutes total time away |
| 9 flight legs (getting on and off an aircraft) |
| 10 hours worth of flight delays |
And what was waiting for us when we got home? The sunny late spring of the Lower Mainland, and some happy children.
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| Alex, Caitlin and cousin Chantelle on the back patio having a late breakfast. | Stacy hugs Alex and Chantelle mugs for the camera. | |
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Auntie Erika, who stayed with the girls while we traveled around the world. She also stayed an extra day after we got back so we had a chance to get our northern hemisphere legs back. |
In hindsight, this may not have been the most practical of trips - we could have spent two or three times the amount of time we spent in each location we visited. But it was fun, practicality was barely a factor.
We know we'll be back to the Netherlands - we've been at the SDGN conference every year for the past three years, and it doesn't seem like its letting up any time soon. We guestimate that to thoroughly explore Turkey, we'll need three weeks. And you could easily spend that much time and more in Australia, although current events on the horizon seem to indicate that travel down there is going to become more frequent.
New Zealand offers a special case, since, in a way, its home. There's a plan in the works to bring the whole family down soon - so that the girls can meet their great-grandmother, and some serious archiving of family history can be done: recordings of the family stories, and digital copies of the amazing photographs that document both sides of Richard's family. There are details to be worked out, but the window of opportunity is small, and preserving the legacy of a family is too important.