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Take the high road: the man who visited every country in the world – without boarding a plane
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2023
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Must be nice to have the money to not work and pay for things like this.
The article says he was funded by personal savings as well as donations from people. His budget was $20/day, not like he was living the high life in 5 star hotels. I actually remember reading some of his blog posts and how rough he had it certain parts of his trip, especially when Covid hit.
That's a lot of savings or a lot of beggins for like 10 years. And when you're back after all that time you still have to survive: either you knew before you were landing safely or what? You send around CV with a ten years gap? I'm pretty sure I'd be royally fucked also staying on 20$ a day. And that's if that amount was real in the first place.
Yeh I mean you are sleeping on the streets and eating scraps on $20/day in EVERY western nation.
Sure, you can lower the average living on a couple dollars a day in developing nations, but I still find it impossible that someone can travel to every nation on the planet for $20/day and survive.
I've travelled on a shoestring across 5 continents.
I call bullshit.
Well, $20/day was his original planned average daily budget. He did say that Western Europe was the hardest, since his money didn't go very far.
In any case, with the increasing length of the trip and his solicitation of financial help, I don't think it's clear whether his final budget was $20/day.
For real! I've always had something like this in mind if I ever won the lotto or something. I'd love to be able to actually see the world without having to worry about how I'm getting by.