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Here are the Summer 2025 numbers!
- number of countries: 7 (USA, Canada, Germany, Kenya, United Arab Emirates, Hungary, Austria...and I could say the number is 8 because we went to the Kenya-Tanzania border, but I'm not counting it because we didn't really visit Tanzania!)
- number of continents: 4 (North America, Europe, Africa, Asia)
- number of commercial flights: 5
- number of commercial airlines: 3 (Air Canada, Lufthansa, Emirates)
- number of charter flights: 4
- number of commercial hotel nights: 15
- number of commercial hotel chains: 7 (Hilton Garden Inn, Best Western, J.W.Marriott, Four Points by Sheraton, Conrad, Anantara, Novotel)
- number of safari property nights: 7
- number of nights on red-eye flights: 2 (Toronto-Frankfurt, Nairobi-Dubai)
- furthest distance from Avalanche: 6,900 miles
- total commercial flying distance: approximately 16,500 miles (plus about 500 miles between the four safari properties)
- total walking distance: approximately 249,000 steps / 93 miles
and finally...
- I slept in four different countries on the last four nights of summer break (Hungary, Austria, Canada, America) before returning to work last Monday!
This trip was life-changing and I know when I get to the end of my life, the time we spent in Kenya will go down as one of the best adventures we ever experienced!
We're already well into booking next summer's travel, with three of our four major flights purchased and several hotel properties chosen. When I shared this with a colleague at work who also likes to travel, she was surprised to hear we were buying plane tickets for next summer while we were in Kenya because she hadn't yet decided on where to go! I told her C and I have our travel plans mapped out several years ahead of time (just the travel for school breaks, not weekend trips and such!) and thankfully, she did not think we were insane.
This tweet is hilarious because it is so painfully accurate! As someone who travels quite a bit, I always feel like I need an engineering degree to figure out how to operate hotel showers! I'd also extend this sentiment to hotel light switches; the first five minutes in any hotel room are always spent trying to figure out which switch operates which fixture or lamp! Surely it does not need to be so complicated! LOL!
Happy Tails to you!
