Traveling to Every Country Without Flying with Thor Pedersen

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🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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In 2013, Thor Pedersen left his home in Denmark for the trip of a lifetime. His goal was to travel to every country in the world. He had three rules for his journey. He had to spend at least 24 hours in each country. He couldn't return to Denmark until he had crossed off every nation on the list. And last but not least, no air travel.

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0:00.0	Shelby here.
0:03.0	The team and I are busy dreaming up the rest of the year and we want to hear from you,
0:07.4	Wild Ideas listeners.
0:09.0	We've created a short five minute survey that asks a range of questions to get to know you, your
0:14.7	adventure style, and the topics you're most interested in. To participate,
0:19.3	head to bit. Lee slash wild underscore ideas ideas again it'll only take five minutes to complete and we would love to hear from you that's
0:28.4	bit dot y slash wild underscore ideas or just head to the link in our show notes.
0:37.0	When I left home I thought it was a country project. I thought I'm going from one country to the next.
0:48.0	Within weeks I realized, oh, it's a people project. That this is about who am I meeting and how do people live and
0:55.4	the kindness and the generosity of those that I meet and people just being people
1:00.2	and a stranger being a friend you've never met before.
1:05.0	In 2013, Thor Peterson left his home in Denmark for the trip of a lifetime.
1:10.0	His goal was to travel to every country in the world. He had three rules for his
1:15.3	journey. He had to spend at least 24 hours in each country. He couldn't return to Denmark
1:20.6	until he had crossed off every nation on the list, and last but not least, no air travel.
1:27.3	It's not easy to get to every country in the first place. It becomes even harder
1:32.0	when you remove the option to fly from one place to another.
1:35.0	Thor had to wait at borders, take long bus rides, and network his way on a cargo ship.
1:41.0	He estimated that traveling through every country without flying
1:44.8	would take him three or four years. Ultimately it took him almost a decade. I'm Shelby Stanger
1:51.9	and this is wild ideas worth living an REI co-op studios production brought to you by Capital One
2:02.3	When Thor Peterson started his quest on October 10th, 2013, around 200 people had been to every country in the world.
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