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Four months.

A few days ago, january 3rd, was the end of my fourth month of traveling, and so it ended the first third of my trip.

So I guess I just have eight more months to discover the rest of the world! Gotta be fast now!

What did I do in 4 month?

If I look at my map, I have travelled around 22 000 km. I think I must be around 25 000 km because of the roads, they’re not as straight as my estimations.

If you look at the diameter of the globe, (40 000 km), you’ll see I went further than half of it! Not bad for a wine-fed city boy from France!

I travelled between the 58°N (Perm city in Russia, 40 minutes stop in the Transsiberian) and the 10°N (Mekong Delta), and between the 2°E (Paris, start of my trip) and the 121°E (Shanghai). and the highest place I stayed at is Shangri-La (aka Zhongdian) in China, at 3 300 m above sea levels.That’s nice but far away.

I took 4 359 digital pictures since sept. 3rd, and if my camera hadn’t broke down in the middle of China, I’d be around 6 000 images (and around 7 of them actually good). The number of analog pictures I shot won’t be counted. Because I don’t want to imagine the bill when I’ll develop them as I come back next autumn.

I think I slept in about 60 different beds, if I don’t count the sleeper busses and trains because you don’t sleep there. Also, instances of shared beds where I didn’t sleep weren’t included.

I could survive 10 days without the Internet, when I was in Mongolia (after 5 days without the ‘net in the Transsiberian train) and I felt good. But when I was sick of the Dengue in Vietnam I did the opposite, watching tv series all day long, cause that’s kind of what you do when you’re sick of the Dengue in Vietnam.

Microsponsoring-wise, 177 days were financed. That’s about half the days in my year! I sent already more than 65 postcards I drew or painted, but all are not yet arrived. And some people don’t tell me when they don’t receive anything… or when they receive their postcard… Speak up people!

Oh, and speaking of postcards, the postal expenses are about 10% of what I earn in sponsorings from the people I send them to. Send. To. What was the meaning of this sentence? Crap. I think I meant that this one time in Cambodia, I sent 10 postcards and it cost me 15€. 10% of what people gave me. And of course I don’t speak of the “free postcards” and souvenirs I send to cute girls around the world.

I met one person every 3 days. That’s a very precise statistic. And I travelled with people almost 59.3% of the time : (that’s even more precise) a polish santa, a parisian and a belgian CS girls, a radio announcer from Uppsalla, a texan girl who loved to say Nihao to chinese people, a swiss guy on a bike non stop from Istambul to Tibet, a french guy who’s not guilty of my Dengue fever, then a biker couple (with their bike and a friend) with whom I had a lovely new year’s eve on the other side of the world, and a juggler, and a guy who shoots with film. A luddite like me :)

But I’m forgetting lots of them.

Other dumb statistics : 1 is the number of times I asked myself “What the fuck am I doing here?”, and it was in Mongolia, I didn’t have a book to read and no light to read it anyway.

Book. I read about a dozen of them and not only to color the images. Bus traveling takes a lot of pages. Except in public busses and women with loud children coming from the market and road workers and chickens.

Oh and I took about every kind of night train classes in China! Soft Sleeper (not so soft, in closed compartments of 4, and with a greater probability of anyone speaking english), Hard Sleeper (when it’s not two grandmas knitting and bitching about other grandmas it’s 6 beds in an open compartment and people giving you posters of Chinese Red Army tanks) and Hard Seat where you seat and try to sleep, with two chinese people sleeping on you. And an actual soldier from the Chinese Red Army as one of them.

For the busses I rode popously in Vietnam (tourist VIP bus), with a little less luxury in China and really not safely for me and the 26 other people in the pick-up described in an upper paragraph, in Cambodia.

What else? I don’t know. If you have anything to ask me about my trip, feel free to ask me!


15 Comments

  1. J’adore ! j’ai voyagé avec toi en lisant ce petit récit !

    Comment by laptitelu — Jan 9th, 2010 @ 03:35 PM
  2. Résumé super sympa et sacrément détaillé !

    Qu’en est il au niveau des choses que tu as appris ? (tu as déjà fait une petite note là dessus après la chine mais je pense à quelque chose de plus global)

    Comment by Naga_ — Jan 9th, 2010 @ 06:48 PM
  3. et moi j’ai bien reçu mon cadeau de Noêl, et on a fait un concours de joli collier avec Ju et Audrey à Ibarron en pensant à toi!
    merci mon Jo :D

    Comment by Mathilde — Jan 9th, 2010 @ 09:16 PM
  4. Ah ben bravo! je vois que je ne rentre pas dans les stats !!!! ;) au moins le voyage en Mongolie est cité plusieurs fois et c’est là l’essentiel!
    Je t’aurai bien envoyé une carte poste mais j’ai pas ton adresse?!
    Bonne route

    Comment by Sonia — Jan 9th, 2010 @ 09:47 PM
  5. Merci pour ce résumé ! J’attends la suite avec impatience… d’autres continents, d’autres rencontres…

    Concernant la carte postale, je ne sais plus trop quel jour j’avais sponsorisé, mais je crois que c’était au début de ton voyage (fin septembre peut-être). Mais… j’ai rien reçu :(

    Comment by Pierre — Jan 10th, 2010 @ 06:18 AM
  6. Hello !

    On peut encore sponsoriser maintenant, si on veut une autre
    carte d’un autre endroit ?

    ++ et bonne suite de voyage !

    Comment by Julien — Jan 10th, 2010 @ 04:01 PM
  7. Merci lu et Naga, et Mathilde!

    Naga, je vais attendre un peu d’avoir appris des choses ;)

    Sonia, oooh, désolé, je ne t’avais pas oublié c’est juste que euh voilà :)
    et puis j’ai pas d’adresse! par contre tu peux me laisser la tienne ;)

    Pierre, ouh en effet c’est un problème… Je me souviens pourtant de l’avoir marquée pour Taiwan… Mais peut-être les services postaux chinois sont un peu frileux sur ce sujet? (je pense que je l’ai envoyée depuis Pékin, pas Oulan Bator…. Mais je me souviens pas exactement)

    Julien, ouais, c’est toujours possible :)

    Comment by joachim — Jan 11th, 2010 @ 11:31 AM
  8. PS: Sonia, I didn’t forget you in the translation :)

    Comment by joachim — Jan 11th, 2010 @ 02:46 PM
  9. Je ne sais pas trop comment se passe le transit de courrier entre Taiwan et la Chine… tant pis ! Je me rince les yeux avec les photos de ton blog :)

    Comment by Pierre — Jan 12th, 2010 @ 05:03 AM
  10. Pierre, bah écoute, tu vis toujours à la même adresse? Ce sera pas la Mongolie si tu reçois une carte, mais ça vaut quand même :)

    Comment by joachim — Jan 12th, 2010 @ 01:48 PM
  11. Yahou !

    Nous avons reçu notre 1ère carte aujourd’hui, postée du Cambodge le 28 décembre (le timbre de la Poste faisant foi !).

    Elle est magnifique !

    On attend les suivantes avec impatience !

    Bises cousin !

    Comment by Bergère — Jan 12th, 2010 @ 07:48 PM
  12. Dis-donc je lis que maintenant ton 4ème mois, que va bientot etre 5ème…tes calculs sont très précis au pifomètre ;) mais tu ne dis pas à la question qu’est-ce que je fais ici… ta réponse? :) tjs des bisous

    Comment by Tiziana — Jan 27th, 2010 @ 11:52 PM
  13. Tiziana, ma réponse est simple : je vais ici et là et j’en rapporte des souvenirs et des histoires pour la plus jolie fille du monde, tout en regrettant qu’elle n’ait pas dit oui quand je lui ai proposé de venir :)

    Comment by joachim — Jan 28th, 2010 @ 07:55 AM
  14. Ohhhhhhhhhh

    Romantique. Après tu pourras publier un livre de photos et lui dedier :) ?

    Comment by Tiziana — Feb 2nd, 2010 @ 04:04 PM
  15. Seulement après qu’elle m’ait brisé le cœur…

    … une deuxième fois

    Comment by joachim — Feb 2nd, 2010 @ 05:14 PM



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