Destroyed:

• 1 pair of pants (fantastically split open at the knee while David was playing soccer in Majunga)
• 1 tent fly (it started disintegrating in MAD and breathed its last in Argentina)
• 2 shoe laces (broke within two weeks of each other and in two countries; one in Sydney, one in Christchurch)
• 1 headband (the cardboard separated from the faux velvet in Blackwood, AU)
• 1 watch (the plastic that held the face to the band popped off in my daypack while in AU)
• 1 GPS (the humidity in Malaysia, especially in Perlis State Park, was just too much for it)
• 1 camera (ditto)
• 2 shirts (mine is permanently disfigured by a large stain of chocolate gelato covering the front, a feat I managed in Solerno, IT; David's favorite, an orange-check shirt, is now so threadbare the lower back, collar and shoulders have no integrity)
• 1 hat (disintegrated in MAD, which is hot and made David's head sweat a lot)

Damaged, but repaired or otherwise still useable:

• 2 pairs of pants (David's, ripped in Malaysia during one of the many, many downpours; mine, worn so often, they started coming apart at the seams--both now have fun, off-colored stitching)
• 2 shirts (both of my button-down, cotton shirts are disintegrating at the shoulder seams, apparently from having shoulder straps rubbing against them every day)
• 2 pairs of boots--yup, 4 boots total (a year's wear will do that, apparently)
• 1 hat (the hat David bought to replace the one that fell apart in MAD is now on it's way out)
• 1 thermarest (several small tears developed when it was accidentally dragged over some pebbles while camping along the Lerderderg in AU--oops)
• 1 tent (in better condition than the rainfly, but its zipper has been replaced by velcro, and it has several snags in the mesh)
• 1 water bottle (thin aluminum doesn't stand up well to being thrown around while camping--who knew?)
• 1 sleeping bag (user error: the dryer was set too high when it was washed in India so some of the material melted)

Lost in the world:

• 1 pair of earrings (technically these were just left at a friend's apartment, but I'm counting them because it could have just as easily been somewhere I couldn't retrieve them)
• 1 earring (it got stuck in my fleece on a bus ride somewhere in Australia and fell off before I noticed--of course it was one of a favorite pair)
• 1 sock (while doing a load of laundry in NZ--isn't that always the way)
• 2 bandanas (1 sank to the bottom of a small lake in Andohahela NP [MAD] when David was trying to do some laundry, and 1 got lost on the logging road we hiked between Blackwood and Trentham [AU]--and we're so anti-littering, too)
• 1 spoon (really, we have no idea where this went, but it's somewhere in MAD)
• 2 stakes (1 is somewhere in MAD and the other somewhere in Italy--it's tough to remember to count the stakes when you're packing up before the sunrise)
• 1 earwarmer (my ears get cold easily, which gives me a headache and makes me cranky--this pair, which we bought in Melbourne, I lost somewhere in NZ between Greymouth and Queenstown, and then replaced them when we got to Dunedin)
• 1 kees--Moroccan bath scrubbie (left at a hotel in India before we saw Uma in Bangalore, because true to form, she promptly gave us one she'd just bought for herself, but insisted she didn't need--such a good hostess!)

David, having reviewed this list for comprehensiveness, is worried that it doesn't convey the full impact of these damages/losses to our lives. In which case I should point out that everything we have had for the full year fits in two medium-sized packs. That's not too much, right?