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The Road to 193: Visiting Every Country in the World
The Road to 193
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The Road to 193
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Travelling to every country is fun dream to plan and work on especially considering exciting countries like Tuvalu, Seychelles, Lesotho and Dominica. Would you consider ‘Kosovo’ or ‘Palestine’ to be sovereign countries? How about the Vatican? How about SMOM or the Sovereign Military Order of Malta,? The SMOM has its own seat at the United Nations and diplomatic relations with 110 soveriegn states (and whose postage stamps are recognized by Canada). Good luck on this achievable dream!
Awesome write up Ricky! I’ll make sure to invite you when I plan trips to dangerous countries like Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia and what not 🙂
I always look forward to email notifications about your blog post.
I think one thing pandemic taught us is that we need to enjoy this planet of ours as much as we can cause you never know when you are not able to do so anymore.
I’m with you, Ricky!
I’ve had the goal of ‘experiencing’ every country in the world for a while now. Do I think I’ll really make it? No. I’m 44 and have 87 countries under my belt. But this hasn’t stopped me from trying.
You’ve got this, Jessalyn! It’s a lifelong journey and I believe in you.
“If I estimate that I’d be able to visit 10 new countries per year on average, this is a task that will take me the next 14 years, until I’m 40 years old, to complete”. Spoken like true millennial. Trust me Ricky there is life, and a great life after 40. Enjoy your journey…even if it takes you until you’re 50:)
Oh, absolutely. I just think it’s useful to have some kind of target to track my progress through the years. I fully expect there to still be some of the more “daring” countries left that I’ll have to save for my 50s when the kids are all grown up.
While I agree with Ricky that if the mission is successful to actually visit every single country and not stop short then it may be a tremendous, once in a life time achievement. I am actually more concerned about the people who spend hundreds of dollars on visas and thousands of dollars on travel just to go to random countries to put their “foot into the boarder” for a check list. To me this 193 goal is “ALL OR NOTHING” because if you do spend your time and money planning to visit random countries and stop short say at 113 out of 193 then all that random visas and money you spent just to step a foot into a country is absolutely wasted.
I would have to agree with Max on the fact that the amount of people hoping to get to 193 and those who actually succeed do not align, and for many people it will end up in financial disappointment and wasted effort.
Yeah, and that’s why I don’t think the “foot over the border” criterion is very meaningful at all.
If I only made it to 113 out of 193 countries, but did so having spent some meaningful time in those 113, interacting with locals, and learning some of their stories, then I’d still consider it a worthwhile effort. It’d be a different story if I spent hundreds of dollars on a visa just to step foot over the border and back.
Judging by the lack of comments I will speak for the people that trying to visit every country in the world is got to be one of the most unrewarding opportunity costs of all time. The amount of effort, money and time required to accomplish this task falls far short of the yields earned achieving it. This task is a perfect ideal beautiful definition of “opportunity cost”.
I happen to completely disagree here – I think the sheer satisfaction of seeing the world and the lifetime of memories would be far more rewarding than anything else. I guess that’s why I’m going for it.
Everyone has its reasons to travel. I have memories of sites I have visited but my dearest memories are of the people I have met (an old Brahman and his wife on a train in India, a young girl selling dates in the streets of Cairo, talking international politics with our local guide in Yazd on a rooftop restaurant over a cup of tea and watching sunset, etc.) This is what I love about travel. I couldn’t care less about the stamps in my passport. This is my own personal view and not a judgment on people who think otherwise.