Best beaches – Thailand

Cheapest country – India (Honorable Mention Nepal)

Best wine – South Africa (H.M. Spain)

Best waterfall – Victoria Falls, Zambia (H.M. Sipi Falls, Uganda)

Best wildlife – Tanzania (H.M. Namibia)

Best food – Thailand (H.M. France and a little Vegetarian Restaurant in Dresden)

Worst food – Morocco

Best sporting event watched – Espanyol vs. FC Barcelona

Best performing arts event – Budapest Opera House (H.M. Malaysian Symphony Orchestra)

Biggest politician seen – Serzh Sargsyan, President of Armenia (within 100m of His Holiness the Dalai Lama)

Longest flight – Seoul to Atlanta, 17 hours

Cheapest flight – Marrakesh, Morocco to Bremen, Germany, 10 Euros

Spiciest meal – Saag Paneer and Dal Fry, New Delhi (H.M. Indian Curry, Fiji)

Best pre-trip purchase – (tie) EEE PC and Canon G9

Best during-trip purchase – two waterguns, Bangkok

Most common country of fellow backpacker – U.K. (H.M.s Germany and Netherlands)

Best beer – Brussels, Belgium

Saddest tourist visit – Auschwitz, Poland

Number of other Kleins met – one, from Munich

Most difficult language – Hungarian

Best non-native English spoken – Norwegian travelers (H.M.s Danish and Dutch travelers)

Most used foreign language – French, in Morocco

Longest bus ride – Cape Town, South Africa to Windhoek, Namibia, 22 hours

Most painful ride – Uganda/Kenya border to Kisumu, Kenya

Most lenient pharmaceutical laws – Thailand (H.M. Egypt)

Most flies while trying to eat – Chefchouaen, Morocco

Most stray cats while trying to eat – Chefchouaen, Morocco

Most difficult conversion – hectares to acres

Most devalued currency – Ugandan Shilling (2000 per dollar)

Strongest currency valuations – Euro, Bosnian Marka, Jordanian Dollar

Country most upset about not being in the EU – Croatia

Best seafood – Fiji (H.M. Kisumu, Kenya)

City most likely to become new party spot – Belgrade, Serbia

Most random place with two men playing chess – outside a temple in Angkor Wat

Least reliable electrical grid – Uganda (H.M. Nepal)

Most desolate country – Namibia

Highest concentration of strong chess players – Belgrade, Serbia

Best modern architecture – Berlin

Best ancient architecture – Luxor, Egypt

Latest night of partying – Prague (bedtime unknown)

Friendliest people – (tie) Egyptians and Thais

Prettiest city – Cape Town

City most resembling Gotham – Hamburg, Germany

Dirtiest, ugliest, most detestable city – New Delhi

Quaintest town – Bergerac, France (H.M. Bremen, Germany)

Best place to eat at 2 a.m. – Barcelona

Most deified sport – cricket in India

Most controversial place – Jerusalem, Israel

Emptiest border – Poland/Slovakia

Shortest country visit – Two hours, Ethiopia (in transit)

Pace of life the slowest – Zanzibar, Tanzania

Longest border crossing – Egypt/Israel (H.M. Cambodia/Thailand)

Best in-flight service – Korean Air, Katmandu-Seoul

Most expensive internet – Yasawa Islands, Fiji ($10/hour)

Biggest sand dunes – (tie) Sahara Desert, Morocco and Sousesvlei, Namibia

Scariest adventure – (tie) shark diving, South Africa and 100m abseil, Uganda

Number of traffic accidents – two, Etosha N.P., Namibia and Zanzibar, Tanzania

Biggest scar – 4cm gash on left leg from Vespa crash, Zanzibar

Most backward airport operations – Marrakesh, Morocco

Most difficult place to get a train ticket – India

Nicest accommodation – (tie) Budapest apartment, Bergerac villa, Cairo friend’s house

Best embassy party – Cairo

Most expensive visa – Tanzania ($100)

Longest length of stay permitted – Fiji (4 months)

Country where I could automatic citizenship – Israel (Jewish father)

Most difficult country to get citizenship – Namibia

Smokiest club – Krakow, Poland

Best use of couchsurfing.com – Zagreb, Croatia

Best hostel – (tie) Hobo Bear, Zagreb, and Refill Now, Bangkok

Cheapest accommodation – Dharamsala, India ($2.50/night, private room and ensuite bath)

Most expensive country – Botswana

Most scenic bus ride – Sarajevo, Bosnia to Dubrovnik, Croatia

Rowdiest hostel – Amsterdam

Best airport – Seoul

Place that loves Obama the most – Kenya (duh)

Place that maintains subtle contempt for America – (tie) Jordan (due to Israel) and Bosnia (due to Kosovo)

Longest stay in one city – Dresden, Germany (18 days)

Longest stay in one country – (tie) Morocco and Germany, one month each

Best city to live in – (tie) Berlin and Bangkok

Cleanest city – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Countries on the Euro not visited – Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Finland, Luxembourg

Best street performers – Las Ramblas, Barcelona

Best local choir singing – Cape Town

Most detested American city by foreigners – Los Angeles

Number of foreign languages I learned to count to ten in – Eight (French, Russian, German, Arabic, Spanish, Hebrew, Serbian, Polish)

Most expensive activity – Safari, Tanzania

Best city tour – Mike’s Bike Tours, Amsterdam

Best hostel to watch "A-Team" reruns – Zdiar, Slovakia

Biggest physical exertion – climbing Mt. Tubkal, Morocco

Best fruit juice – mango juice, Cairo

Least behaved children – India

Most behaved children – all over Africa

Most hippies – Rishikesh, India

Best place for a day hike and picnic – Pyrenees Mountains, France

Best currency design – Israeli Shekels

Best water – Fiji (duh)

Most common beer found around the world – Heineken

Least places open – Saturdays, Jerusalem (H.M. Sundays, Croatia)

Loudest minaret – Rabbat, Morocco, 4 a.m. daily

Worst city disguised by its Hollywood connection – Casablanca, Morocco

Best free food – tapas in Granada, Spain

Least likely to find Japanese tourists - ???

Biggest camera envy – Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

Biggest shock to the senses – India

Friendliest villagers – (tie) Livingstone, Zambia and Yasawa Islands, Fiji

Worst in-flight movie – "Bride Wars"

Most nudity by locals – Jinja, Uganda

Most nudity by tourists – Ko Phi Phi, Thailand

Best rafting – Nile River, Uganda (H.M. Zambezi River, Zambia)

Country most likely to succumb to civil war – Bosnia and Herzegovina (H.M. South Africa)

Prettiest girls – Durham, USA

Best novel read – "Confederacy of Dunces"

Best non-fiction read – "Ghost Train to the Eastern Star"

Best guidebook – blah, no more guidebooks, ever

Prettiest small capital – Ljubljana, Slovenia

Best art museum – Vienna, Austria

Longest wait in sub-zero temperatures for a phantom bus – Zakopane, Poland (3 hours)

Number of airline segments flown - 24

Number of airline miles flown – about 50,000

Number of watches lost or broken – two

Number of flashlights lost or broken – three

Number of sunglasses lost or broken – four

Best pastries – France

Best mussels – Brussels

Rudest taxi drivers – Jerusalem

Most random place for a Western chain – Baskin Robbins in Jaipur, India

Scariest boat ride – ferry from Ko Phi Phi to Ko Lanta, Thailand

Most pedestrians per downtown block – Kampala, Uganda

Weirdest sight on a golf course – cows grazing (Jinja, Uganda)

Sport most likely to resume back home – mountain biking

Sport least likely to resume back home – sandboarding

Nicest tented accommodation – Nairobi, Kenya

Best holiday – Thai New Year, Bangkok (H.M. New Year’s Eve, Zagreb)

Worst food poisoning – (tie) Bedouin food, Sahara Desert, Morocco and mystery restaurant, Pokara, Nepal

Strangest local euphemism – "robot" in Namibia, meaning "traffic light"

Most majestic sight – Petra, Jordan (H.M. Victoria Falls, Zambia/Zimbabwe)

Best snorkeling/scuba diving – (tie) Dahab, Egypt and Ko Phi Phi, Thailand

Best marine creature – manta rays, Fiji (H.M. white sharks, South Africa)

Best arts scene – Kreutzberg, Berlin

Best bar scene – Neustadt, Dresden

Quickest meal devoured – veggie stir-fry, Essouira, Morocco

Most used British-isms – "proper," "torch," "aubergine," "boot," "lorry," "parecetamol"

Coolest greeting – "Howsit," South Africa

Most vegetarian friendly – India (H.M. Egypt)

Least vegetarian friendly – Eastern Europe

Number of band-aids and Advil consumed – still counting…

Most dysfunctional security – Taj Mahal

Most painful willful experience – Thai massage, Bangkok

Most excruciating mental experience – watching a man break his leg, Bangkok

Most missed sports moment – UNC’s National Championship

Least missed sports moment – something about a Cardinals playoff game

Strangest thing about reentry – owning a cell phone again (H.M. driving on the right)

Number of countries visited – 25

Countries I was really close to visiting – Montenegro, Kosovo, Italy, Seychelles, Vanuatu, Myanmar

Number of hours on a plane to get home from Fiji – 30

Length of my day on Saturday (as I will cross the date line) – about 40 hours

See you when? – soon, I hope