Danish traveler Torbjorn Pedersen says he is the first person to visit every country in the world — without flying. It's a feat that took 10 years to accomplish — with average costs of around $20 a day, he said.
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It nearly broke him. Torbjorn Pedersen packed a suitcase with a few necessities in 2013 — shirts, jackets, shoes, a first-aid kit and a laptop — excited to begin a historic journey. Pedersen hoped to become perhaps the first person to visit all 195 countries without flying.
In 2019, he became a record-breaking traveler... At the end of November 2019, a month before the first cases of coronavirus emerged, a 26-year-old Brazilian man named Anderson Dias broke the world record for visiting every country on Earth in the fastest documented time.
For those counting, that's 193 UN-recognized nations, plus two observer states and two more countries that Binsky visited for good measure (his total country count is 197). To date, only about 250 people have visited every country in the world.