Summing up my Russia/Mongolia/China trip by the numbers

Number of kilometers covered by train:
-St Petersburg to Suzdal: 631km
-Moscow-Irkutsk: 5,193km
-Irkutsk-Ulaanbaatar: 860km
-Ulaanbaatar-Beijing: 1,356km
-Total: 8,040km (this is 5.7x the distance from Lands End to John O'Groats and 2.03x the distance from NYC to LA)

Number of trains taken: 5 (2 Tran-Siberian, 2 Trans-Mongolian, 1 Local)

Number of hours spent on a train:
St Petersburg to Suzdal: 11
Moscow-Irkutsk: 87
Irkutsk-Ulaanbaatar: 36
Ulaanbaatar-Beijing: 31
Total: 165

Number of nights spent on a train: 8

Number of nights spent in a hotel: 10

Number of nights spent in a Gur: 1

Number of modes of transportation: 10 (airplane, car, public bus, subway, train, minibus, boat, ferry, taxi, horse)

Number of continents visited: 2

Number of countries visited: 3

Number of time zones covered: 5

Number of hours spent at border controls/border crossings: 15

Number of different card games played: 5

Number of total card games played: Too many to count

Number of beers tried: 7

Number of animals eaten: 6 (cow/beef, sheep/mutton, horse, pig/pork, chicken, ox)

Number of guides we had: 8

Number of ways to say thank you learned: 3 (Sbasiba, Bairla, Sheh sheh)

Number of required hospital visits: 2 (thankfully neither by me)

Number of required consulate/embassy visits: 2 (again, not by me)

Number of churches visited: 21 (may have missed a few)

Number of Buddhist sites visited: 3

Number of photos I took: 1,281

Number of photos Col France took (that were worthy of being posted): 4,662

Number of words in my travel journal/blog: 24,503

Number of times in one lifetime you get to experience something like this: 1