All photos: Rob Gain

• Days in the Middle East: 76
• Days without a haircut: 85
• Countries: 6

• Friends made: 59
• Homes invited into: 5
• Times: robbed: 0
• …sick: 0
• …food poisoned: 0
• Ripped off by cabbies: 3
• …with help of Israeli border patrol: 1
• Dates with Muslim girls: 3
• Marriage proposals by Muslim girls: 1
• Hours spent on buses circling Turkey: 81
• Obama sightings in İstanbul: 2
• Times stopped by Egyptians just to be insulted: 2
• Candy bars per dollar in Jordan: 7
• …in Israel: <1
• Days passed before I realized it might be a good idea to learn the local language: 1
• …for reasons other than meeting girls: 37
• Days to go: 934

Please check out Rob’s blog at Matador for more on his incredible travels + incredible photos.

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