Category Archives: Statistics

Five Months on the Road – Statistics and Earnings

We have been on the road for five months now, and in the moment of writing we’ve just landed in Sweden and thereby finished our first MangoManjaro trip! Because of bad planning and visa issues we have not made INTO India, but to the border. More about that later.

This month’s (January/February 2011) statistics are a bit special. It is our final month of this journey, we were not able to hitchhike in the last country, and we have arranged both public and non public Chicken Dances.
Here we go!

Movements

  • 4 countries passed
  • 2 borders crossed by foot
  • 1 border crossed by car
  • 6293 km / 3910 miles traveled

Drivers

  • 34 drivers (from Trabzon, Turkey to Karachi, Pakistan )
  • 32 % of the drivers spoke English
  • 100 % of the drivers were men

The Chicken Dance

  • 3 public dance arranged
  • 1 unofficial dance arranged, the first and only one during this trip

Accommodation

  • 16 nights spent in hostels
  • 5 night spent with new found friends
  • 5 nights spent CouchSurfing
  • 2 nights spent traveling
  • 1 night spent with the Pakistani police

Blog activity

  • 14 published posts
  • 23 new fans on Facebook
  • 24 new followers on Twitter
  • 1673 visitors
  • 55 daily visitors

Finances

  • A daily budget of around 8 € per person, for food, accommodation and local transports.
  • 200 € earned on selling material to the Swedish radio
  • 75 € donated by readers who supports us financially (thank you again, your gifts are on their way!)

We believe in full transparency, so you can expect to see a summary like this one even in future projects.

Read the statistics for December/January and compare them!

Thank you for following us all the way to the Indian border!

Unlimited love,
Amanda and Robin

Four Months on the Road – Statistics and Earnings

We have been on the road for four months now.
This time the statistics looks a bit less exact than last month since we decided to go to Sweden for Christmas. The distance traveled etc is based on our time abroad, excluding our break back home.

Here are this month’s (December/January 2010) statistics:

Movements

  • 3 countries passed (incl. Sweden)
  • 2 borders crossed by foot
  • 2400 km / 1490 miles traveled

Drivers

  • 15 drivers (from Amman, Jordan to Trabzon, Turkey )
  • 27 % of the drivers spoke English

The Chicken Dance

  • 1 public dance arranged

Accommodation

  • 10 nights spent in hostels
  • 13 nights spent with family and friends in Sweden
  • 8 nights spent CouchSurfing

Blog activity

  • 13 published posts
  • 66 new fans on Facebook
  • 30 new followers on Twitter
  • 1627 visitors
  • 54 daily visitors

Finances

  • A daily budget of 10€ per person, for food, accommodation and local transports. That’s around 300€ per person.

We believe in full transparency, so you can expect to see a summary like this next month as well.

Read the statistics for November/December and compare them!

Thank you for following us into the new year!
What would you like to see next month?

Love and magical mango energy,
Amanda and Robin

3 Months on the Road – Statistics and Earnings

We have been on the road for three months now.

Here are this month’s (November/December 2010) statistics:

Movements

  • 2 countries passed
  • 1 border crossed by car
  • 1 border crossed by foot
  • 1400 km / 869 miles traveled

Drivers

  • 25 drivers (from Aleppo, Syria to Aqaba, Jordan and back north to Amman, Jordan)
  • 40 % of them picked us up within 3 min
  • 36 % of them within 5-10 min
  • 12 % of them within 10-20 min
  • 12 % of them picked us up within 20-30 min
  • 36 % of the drivers spoke English

The Chicken Dance

  • 1 public dance arranged

Accommodation

  • 16 nights spent in hostels
  • 6 nights spent camping in an organized site
  • 6 nights spent CouchSurfing
  • 1 night spent in Mar Musa monastary

Blog activity

  • 18 published posts
  • 28 new fans on Facebook
  • 14 new followers on Twitter
  • 3 new newsletter subscribers
  • ~1500 visitors
  • ~50 daily visitors

Finances

  • 80€ donated by readers who supports us financially (thank you again!)
  • 150€ earned on selling photos to a newspaper
  • A daily budget of 11€ per person, for food, accommodation and local transports. That’s around 330€ per person.

We believe in full transparency, so you can expect to see a summary like this next month as well.

Read the statistics for October/November and compare them!

Thank you for reading and sharing the joy with us!
What would you like to see next month?

Love,
Amanda and Robin

Two Months On The Road!

We’ve been on the road for two months now.

Here are this month’s (October/November 2010) statistics:

Movements

  • 2 countries passed
  • One border crossed by car
  • 35 drivers (from Ruse, Bulgaria to Dörtyol, Turkey)
  • 3000 km / 1863 miles traveled

The Chicken Dance

  • 1 public dance arranged, (failing twice)

Accommodation

  • 21 nights spent in hostels
  • 3 nights spent camping in a camp site
  • 2 nights spent with people who we’ve met on our way
  • 6 nights spent with friends who we knew from before

Blog activity

  • 26 published posts
  • 37 new fans on Facebook
  • 12 new followers on Twitter
  • Number of new newsletter subscribers unknown – MailChimp not reachable
  • ~2000 visitors
  • ~85 daily visitors
  • 49 comments posted by engaged readers
  • Number of Facebook likes per post unknown – Facebook blocked in Syria

Finances

  • 227 € donated by readers who supports us financially (thank you again!)
  • A daily bud get of 13€ per person, for food, accommodation and local transports. That’s about 390€ per person.

We believe in full transparency, so you can expect to see a summary like this next month as well.

Read the statistics for September/October and compare them!

Thank you very much for participating in this adventure!
Love,
Amanda and Robin

One month!

Map over our movements for September and October 2010.
GPS data visualized

We’ve been on the road for a month now.

Here is this months (September/October 2010) statistics:

Movement

  • 5 countries passed
  • 4 borders crossed by foot and 1 by car
  • 33 drivers (from Gdansk, Poland to Guirgui, Romania)
  • 4272 km / 2 654 miles traveled

The Chicken Dance

  • 10 public dances performed

Accommodation

  • 5 nights spent wild camping
  • 2 nights spent camping on organized camp sites
  • 8 nights spent in hostels
  • 8 nights spent CouchSurfing
  • 3 nights spent in other peoples homes (not associated with any kind of network)

Blog activity

  • 48 published posts
  • 95 fans on Facebook
  • 25 followers on Twitter
  • 16 newsletter subscribers
  • ~2000 visitors
  • ~85 daily visitors
  • 23 comments posted by engaged readers
  • ~8 likes per post by loyal readers

Finances

  • 5 SEK (1$/0,7€) earned from Google Adsense
  • 110€ donated by readers who supports us financially (thank you again!)
  • A daily budget of 13€ a person, for food, accommodation and local transports. That’s about 390€ per person.

We believe in full transparency, so you can expect to see a summary like this every month.

We can’t say anything else than that it’s been a huge success so far!
Many people have emailed us just to say that they feel very inspired, and that’s why were doing this.
We’re extremely passionate about this project.

This blog is not fully reader-supported yet (financially), but that’s what we’re working towards.
We believe that this project will be able to support itself in a few months.
Help us get there by donating today!

Thank you for reading, supporting and participating in our adventure.
Your engagement means a lot to us.
Love,
Robin and Amanda.