if I could do it all again...

...there are a few things I'd do differently:

• give ourselves a bit more time in fewer locations
• ensure that our luggage could handle the trip beforehand (it made it, but barely)
• pack less, even though I can victoriously state that I used every single thing in my luggage (save my damn suit, which I didn't want to bring, but Thunderbird made us, so it doesn' t count)
• I'd rock a pedometer, since I'm now curious just how many steps/miles/circumferences of the Earth I walked over four months
• take my computer from the get-go
  

And there's a whole mess of things that I'd be certain I had before leaving the country again (a.k.a. stuff I bought along the way):

• a watch
• waterless anti-bacterial hand sanitizer
• lots of over-the-counter medication (advil, sudafed, the whole nine. you can't get it OTC in Europe...like at all.)
• more undies (whoops)
• my beloved pashmina, possibly the greatest purchase I could have made on the road. I heart that thing.
• more than one power adapter

All in all, I think we did a pretty damn good job of packing and planning. pat-pat-pat (that's us, patting ourselves on the back...hehehe.)