
Our Trip In Numbers
SHAKEDOWN FACTS
Days of car preparation: 662 or 1 year, 9 months, 24 days
Number of hours online: lost count
Cost of the car: £4500
Cost of prepairing the car: £20,000 and i stopped counting
Number of passports we have: 2 each
Number of miles on shakedown: 5503
Number of miles the odometer didn’t move: ~1000
Actual miles driven on shakedown ignoring odometer: 6376.30
Number of litres of Diesel used on shakedown: 1022.35 (224.88 Imperial gallons)
Average Fuel consumption in MPG: 26.92
Number of times we filled up: 27
Number of days on trip: 23
Number of Days Sleeping in the car: 21
Number of times we got stopped for speeding: 1 (in a Land Rover !!!)
Number of times we had to explain we wern’t a HGV: 3
AFRICA FACTS
Number of Malaria Tablets: 628
Visas: 12 (Syria, Turkey, Jordan, Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique)
Number Vignettes so far: 6 (45 Euros ish)
Miles travelled: 34537 Miles OR 55582 Km
Hotels: 18 Nights
Wildcamps: 105 Nights
Couch Surf: 26 Nights
Campsite: 211 Nights
Litres of Diesel: 5851 ( 1288 Gallons)
Number of stones thrown at us in Ethiopia: 3
Number of stones thrown at us in Namibia: 1
Number of times we filled up: 90
Number of Shock Absorbers broken: 3
Number of Countries visited: 28 (if we include 5 mins in Lesoto 27)
Number of near death experiences: 1
Number of times we crossed the equator: 3
Average cost of fuel per day: £12.31
Number of days of the road: 388
Cash spent: approx £22576
Number of Mosquito bites for Nelly: 8
Number of Mosquito bites for Jelly: 100,000
Number of times we brushed out teeth: 7
Number of the 7 (or so) wonders of the world we’ve seen: 4
SOUTH AMERICA FACTS (COMING SOON)
Servery delayed as i’m lazy…..i will do it soon….Added 18th June 2023