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A Danish man claimed that he has spent the last decade visiting every single country without ever boarding a flight.
“The idea was to do it with public transport wherever possible so that means hundreds of buses, trains and ferries then you ask if you can get on someone’s fishing boat or a container ship.” The Denmark native said that avoiding traveling the airways was “very complicated” and that in order to complete his goal, he took 351 buses, 158 trains, 43 tuk-tuks, 37 container ships, 33 boats, nine trucks, three sailboats, two cruise ships, one horse carriage, one police car and one yacht.Kennedy News/Mike DouglasPedersen also said that there were motorbikes, taxis, metros, minibusses and trams.
“I have to spend a minimum of 24 hours in a country. What I do isn’t tourism, it’s like running a marathon or going to the moon,” stated Pedersen. “It’s an accomplishment. A lot of my time is spent on buses and trains.”“There was no way to be comfortable on the bus ride,” stated Pedersen. “You’d have to have buns of steel but people are fun and you have good conversations with whoever is next to you.
Before taking off on the spectacular journey, Pedersen and his wife, Le calculated that the entire trip would take around 4 years to complete.Thankfully the pair will be reunited in July when the man returns from his sojourn and intends to start a family.“My wife didn’t want to stand in the way of something I wanted to do but she was conflicted because she would rather be building a life with me, waking up next to me and holding my hand,” he explained to the outlet.
Pedersen said that out of the entire trip, the only regret he had was not being able to spend time with his family or friends.
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