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Where I will be sleeping over my break, which goes from 12/18 - 1/21, roughly:

12/18: Highland Park, NJ (probably, but potentially Brooklyn, NY)
12/19: Washington, DC (Katie's)
12/20: Durham, NC (Crystal's)
12/21, 22: Dad's (Christiansburg)
12/23: Grandma & Papa's (Cornbread Road)
12/24, 25: Mom's (Cornbread Road)
12/26, 27: Highland Park, NJ
12/28: In an airplane going over the Atlantic Ocean
12/29: TBD, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
12/30 - 1/3: Penthouse on Long, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
1/4: Mankedaat Caves, Bavianskloof, Eastern Cape, South Africa
1/5: Old Gaol, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa
1/6, 7: Coffee Shack, Coffee Bay, Eastern Cape, South Africa
1/8: Happy Hippo, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
1/9, 10: Amphitheatre Backpackers, Oliviershoek Pass, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
1/11, 12: TBD, Nelspruit, Mpumalanga, South Africa (probably, but potentially somewhere in Swaziland)
1/13: TBD, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
1/14: TBD, Nairobi, Kenya (probably, but potentially in transit to Kampala)
1/15, 16 TBD, Kampala, Uganda
1/17, On a bus traveling from Kampala to Nairobi
1/18, TBD, Nairobi, Kenya
1/19, Highland Park, NJ
1/20, Washington, DC (Katie's)

Total nights: 34
Total nights spent in US: 12
-Highland Park, NJ (4)
-Washington, DC (2)
-Durham, NC (1)
-Montgomery County, VA (5)
Total nights spent outside of US: 22
-In transit (2)
-On a plane (1)
-On a bus (1)
-In South Africa (16)
-Gauteng (2)
-Western Cape (5)
-Eastern Cape (4)
-KwaZulu-Natal (3)
-Mpumalanga (2)
-Nairobi, Kenya (2)
-Kampala, Uganda (2)

Or to put this all another way, break will involve:

11 forms of transportation:
-car/truck
-train
-subway
-monorail
-plane
-bus
-minibus taxi/matatu
-boat
-raft
-foot
-cable car

Four republics
-USA
-South Africa
-Kenya
-Uganda
Two constitutional monarchies
-Netherlands
-Lesotho
One absolute monarchy
-Swaziland

Eight (of 50) U.S. States and one Federal District
-New Jersey
-New York
-Pennsylvania
-Delaware
-Maryland
-Virginia
-West Virginia
-North Carolina
-District of Columbia

One (of 12) Dutch provinces
-Noord Holland

Seven (of 9) South African provinces
-Gauteng
-Western Cape
-Eastern Cape
-KwaZulu-Natal
-Orange Free State
-Mpumalanga
-Limpopo (most excited, as this is the only one I haven't been to!)

Three (of 4) Swazi regions
-Hhohho
-Manzini
-Lubombo

Four (of 8) Kenyan provinces
-Nairobi
-Central
-Rift Valley
-Western

Nine (of 80) Ugandan districts
-Tororo
-Busia
-Jinja
-Bugiri
-Iganga
-Mayuge
-Mukono
-Wakiso
-Kampala