All photos: Rob Gain
Matador Community member Rob Gain has been traveling throughout the Middle East for the last several months. Here’s his trip so far by the numbers:
- Days in the Middle East: 76
- Days without a haircut: 85
- Countries: 6
- Friends made: 59
- Homes invited into: 5
- Times: robbed: 0
- …sick: 0
- …food poisoned: 0
- Ripped off by cabbies: 3
- …with help of Israeli border patrol: 1
- Dates with Muslim girls: 3
- Marriage proposals by Muslim girls: 1
- Hours spent on buses circling Turkey: 81
- Obama sightings in İstanbul: 2
- Times stopped by Egyptians just to be insulted: 2
- Candy bars per dollar in Jordan: 7
- …in Israel: <1
- Days passed before I realized it might be a good idea to learn the local language: 1
- …for reasons other than meeting girls: 37
- Days to go: 934
Please check out Rob’s blog at Matador for more on his incredible travels + incredible photos.
Community Connection
Do you have a trip or something related to travel or place that’s worth telling by the numbers? If we’d love to hear from you. Please query david [at] matadornetwork [dot] com
David Miller
David Miller is senior editor of Matador (winner of 2010 and 2011 Lowell Thomas awards for travel journalism), and BETA magazine. After living for the last two years in Patagonia, Argentina, he is returning with his wife and two young children to the Southern US. Follow him @dahveed_miller.
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