After nearly six months on the road we are heading home. Today we will drive from Rotorua to Auckland and catch our 12-hour (direct!) flight back to San Francisco. We love that we leave Auckland at 7:30pm and arrive in SF at 11:45am - on the same day. Tallying up the numbers, we've: - Been on the road 163 days, just under six months - Visited 10 countries: Japan, Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Burma, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand - Taken 20 flights, with Burma taking the prize for most flights/country. We had a lot of amazing experiences (riding elephants in Laos, being blessed by an 83-year old Buddhist monk in a region bombed heavily by the CIA, watching the sun rise over ancient temples in Burma and Cambodia, hiking in New Zealand's magnificent national
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