Many people have dreamed of it, but one woman in her 60s is determined to visit every country in the world.
She also has quite a head start on her bucket list.
Office administrator Lynn Stevenson sold her home, quit her job, and began traveling the world with the goal of visiting every country in the world.
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According to news agency SWNS, she traded her two-bedroom home for hotels and hostels around the world after being bitten by the travel bug.
The 62-year-old has already visited 168 countries and plans to continue visiting the remaining 27 over the next year or so.
Lynn Stephenson, a former office administrator, had traveled around the world many times before selling her house and quitting her job, but this time she said she was really serious. (SWNS)
In November 2022, she said, “I decided to sell. It was always on the radar and something I wanted to do.”
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Before that, she had traveled the world many times over the years, but this time she meant it.
So she sold her semi-detached holiday home in Carlton, Nottingham, England, and netted around $173,000 after paying off the mortgage.
She's amassing a following on social media as she works to complete her journey.
That money still fuels her travels.
She's amassing a following on social media as she works to complete her journey. Recently, she has been “island hopping” around the South Pacific, SWNS reports.
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“I absolutely love it. Every day is an adventure.”
She added that sometimes things just don't work out. “It's not all fun and games,” she says.
But traveling, she says, “is very calming.”
What inspired her to take on this as a full-time job?
Stevenson poses on Easter Island. “I absolutely love it,” she said of the trip. “Every day is an adventure.” (SWNS)
She said it was nothing more than a coronavirus lockdown.
“COVID-19 gave me the perfect push that I needed to do it,” she told SWNS.
“I didn’t believe you could shut down the whole world.”
She said: “When the lockdown is lifted, [in portions of the U.K.] July 3, 2020 I was on a plane to Italy on July 5th. ”
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She said she put everything in storage before the flight date.
Stevenson told SWNS that since she began traveling in earnest at the end of 2022, she has visited Nepal, Bhutan, Thailand, Iraq, Afghanistan, South Korea, Pakistan and Taiwan.
“I think it's really difficult to choose a favorite country.”
She called the Galapagos Islands “amazing…we went for eight days and stayed for 16 days.”
Elsewhere in the world she said, “Can you swim?” [on] On the same day as penguins, sharks and sea lions? They had a huge turtle and I saw a seahorse. ”
She also said, “I think it's really hard to choose a favorite country. How can you compare Papua New Guinea and Italy? They're completely different.”
Stevenson tore through Nepal, Bhutan, Thailand, Iraq, Afghanistan, South Korea, Pakistan, and Taiwan. (SWNS)
She says that regardless of what others believe or are told, “my favorite thing about traveling is the realization that the world is full of truly kind and hospitable people.” That’s what I do,” he said.
She also said, “I'm not easily scared.''
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She admitted, “It will happen.” [some] Countries that you would have a hard time getting to, like Haiti and North Korea…I've walked through the demilitarized zone and you have to go into it. ”
She also said that “there are some very dangerous couples in the Central African Republic.”
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She said she plans to spend a few weeks in Australia next year, meeting up with friends she met while traveling.
She is also eyeing Bangladesh and Brunei for 2025.
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She also said, “I plan to go back to Africa.''
She said she plans to revisit some of her favorite places on an “epic world tour” once she's visited every country possible.
Her travel blog's motto, “Challenge, Dream, Discover,” is just that: “A Smile Every Mile.”
