As of this Sunday, I’m going to be in Sudan for about a month, carrying out the second field visit for the ECB4 assessment. This means that I’ll actually be posting some actual, honest-to-goodness perspectives from the field - which is far more interesting than just commenting on other people’s blog posts, right? Right.

While we’re waiting for my flight, I thought I’d post something entirely unrelated to ICT or relief work. Courtesy of Sanjiva, I entered my travel details for last year into the Great Circle Mapper, to find out exactly how far I travelled in 2005. That’s 165140 km, people! No wonder I’m tired.

And here’s a meme right back (although it’s a pretty old one). Ever since I first went over the water, I’ve had a running competition with myself: to visit more countries than I’ve lived years on this earth. So far, so good - I’m on 50 52 at last count, although it depends on how you count the countries - personally, the whole Balkans thing makes my head hurt. Here’s my current status, courtesy of the Visited Countries project of Douwe Osinga.

Please note that no Google Maps were harmed in the making of this blog.