While many individuals have dreamed of doing it, one lady in her 60s is decided to get to each nation on the earth.
She’s received an enormous head begin on her bucket checklist, too.
Lynn Stephenson, an workplace administrator, bought her dwelling, stop her job — and started to travel the world with the aim of visiting each single nation across the globe.
She exchanged her two-bedroom dwelling for hotels and hostels all over the world after she was bitten by the journey bug, in accordance with information company SWNS.
At age 62, she’s already visited 168 international locations and plans to maintain going for the remaining 27 within the yr or so forward.
Prior to promoting her dwelling and quitting her job, Lynn Stephenson, a former workplace administrator, had taken plenty of journeys all over the world, she stated — however this time she actually meant it. (SWNS)
In Nov. 2022, she stated, “I made a decision to promote up. It was all the time on the radar and what I wished to do.”
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Prior to that, she’d taken plenty of journeys all over the world for plenty of years — however this time she actually meant it.
So she bought her semi-detached cottage in Carlton, Nottingham, England — and pocketed roughly $173,000 after paying off her mortgage, she stated.
She’s amassed a following on social media as she works to finish her journey.
That cash remains to be fueling her travels.
She’s amassed a following on social media as she works to finish her journey. Most lately, SWNS reported, she’s been “island hopping” across the South Pacific.
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“I completely find it irresistible. Every day is an journey.”
She added that generally issues can go improper — “it is not all enjoyable and video games,” she stated.
But she stated touring makes her “very calm.”
What gave her the push to do that as a full-time endeavor?
Stephenson poses at Easter Island. “I completely find it irresistible,” she stated of her travels. “Every day is an journey.” (SWNS)
Nothing lower than the COVID lockdowns, she stated.
“COVID gave me the whole push that I wanted to do it,” she instructed SWNS.
“I had by no means believed that you may lock down all the world.”
She stated that when “lockdown was lifted [in portions of the U.K.] on July 3, 2020, I used to be on a aircraft to Italy on July 5.”
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She stated she put every little thing in storage forward of that flight date.
Since she started her full-time travels in late 2022, Stephenson has ticked off Nepal, Bhutan, Thailand, Iraq, Afghanistan, South Korea, Pakistan and Taiwan, she instructed SWNS.
“I feel it is actually tough to choose your favourite nation.”
She referred to as the Galápagos Islands “wonderful … I went for eight days and stayed for 16.”
Where else on the earth, she stated, “are you able to swim [on] the identical day with penguins, sharks and sea lions? They have large tortoises and I noticed a seahorse.”
She additionally stated, “I feel it is actually tough to choose your favourite nation. How are you able to examine Papua New Guinea to Italy? They’re fully totally different.”
Stephenson has ticked off Nepal, Bhutan, Thailand, Iraq, Afghanistan, South Korea, Pakistan and Taiwan. (SWNS)
She stated, “My favourite factor about touring is simply realizing the world is stuffed with actually type, hospitable individuals,” regardless of what others might consider or are instructed, she stated.
She additionally stated, “I do not get frightened very simply.”
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She acknowledged that “there’s going to be [some] international locations that I’m going to battle to get to, like Haiti and North Korea … I’ve walked within the DMZ, however I want to enter it.”
She additionally stated that “there is a couple within the Central African Republic which are an enormous dodgy.”
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Coming up for her within the subsequent yr, she stated, is Australia, the place she’ll see buddies she’s met on her travels and spend a number of weeks.
She additionally has Bangladesh and Brunei on her radar for 2025.
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She’s “going again to Africa,” too, she stated.
She stated that when she will get to each nation she will be able to, she’s going to revisit a few of the favourite spots on her “epic world tour.”
As for her motto on her journey weblog, “Dare, dream, uncover,” it is nothing lower than this: “A smile for each mile.”
