Days out of country: 15
Total flight time: More than 32 hours (at least 15 hours from Honolulu to Taipei to Bangkok to Kolkata, and 2.5 hours from Kolkata to Delhi)
Total train time: 5 hours
Total car time: 24 hours (about 7 hour round trip from Kolkata to Dumka, an hour a day from Dumka to the village Dhoker Jhara)
Number of photos taken: 4,770
Hours spent on the Internet: 6
Number of those hours spent on Facebook: 4.5
Calls dialed to Hawaii and the Mainland: 3
Of those 3 calls, number that actually connected: 0
Number of snakes seen: 0
Number of monkeys seen: 5 (2 at Taj Mahal, 2 at a train station, 1 in a park in Kolkata)
Times I said I was going to see a doctor because of my deviated septum: 20
Times I've been to the doctor about my deviated septum since I've been back: 0
Number of times I bathed with a cup and bucket of cold water: 8
Most listened to album: "Octahedron" by The Mars Volta
Most fitting song: "Karma Police" by Radiohead
Book I listened to: "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling (audiobooks are awesome on long trips)
Book I read: Lonely Planet - India
Song that went through my head the most:
Food item eaten the most: Eggs
Word uttered most when ordering food: masala
I'm most surprised that: I didn't get so sick I was puking.
Craziest thing I saw indoors: 2 babies in formaldehyde at the Indian Museum in Kolkata
Craziest thing I saw outdoors: A pair of motorcycles coming straight at our car. They were on the wrong side of the road for some reason.
Most surprising thing I saw: A cow eating trash
Most pleasantly surprising thing I saw: Everything is cheap. Really cheap.
Cheapest thing purchased: 1 cup of chai tea for 5 rupees (US$0.11)
Phrase uttered most often: "It's a steal!"
Things I don't miss: The humidity and heat, the pollution, the trash, the beggars, the unrelenting salespeople.
Things I do miss: The low price of everything, the great cuisine, the friendly and conversational people, the unrelenting motion of life.
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