I've written a lot about Australia 14. Here are a few numbers to go with my words. Pictures in a few weeks...
1. Kilometers flown: 33,537
2. Number of flights: 7
3. Kilometers driven: 3,951
4. Kilometers walked: ~75 horizontal, ~8 vertical
5. Trucks and cars rented: 4
6. Rock samples collected: 28 for research, 14 for my collection, 2 for gifts
7. Kilograms of sand collected: 1.1
8. Photographs made: 2479 (this includes bracketing, so call it ~1300 unique images)
9. Videos shot: 9, 17 minutes total
10. Blog Entries: 22
11. Blog words: 17,544
12. Spherule layer sites studied: 7
13. Impact craters visited: 2
14. New places explored in the NT and WA: 17
15. Probable scientific publications from this trip: 3
16. Nights under the stars: 19
17. Nights under a roof: 10
18. Grant money expended: $12,054
19. Personal money expended: well, enough to buy 14 books, 16 postcards, 5 notepads, 4 meters of fabric, 2 t-shirts, 42 minutes of mobile phone time, and hours of internet
20. Time till next trip: too long
