Fascinating story of a Danish traveler who visited every country on Earth, only by land and boat.
It’s good to see Torbjørn returning home. I remember his AMA on Reddit back in like 2013 and followed him since. I still would pop in his website and check where he was at.
He used to pop in on Reddit around that time, but he had some issue with them at some point. And they didn’t let him do more AMAs anymore. Not sure what happened.
He got totally fucked by COVID, because he was in Hong Kong when it hit and was there for two years. He could’ve flown home and given up, but by that time he was 7 years into it. I remember him also having a lot of trouble crossing land borders in Central Africa because of corrupt border guards and arbitrary visa issues.
Last I checked he was in Maldives! Good to read that he made it back safe. He always seem like a nice, wholesome guy. I always wondered how’d he adapt to being back home.
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.
I’m glad to see he’s involved with a documentary. Hopefully it’s all about this journey. I’d imagine he has a very unique perspective on people all around the world and all of the different cultures if the world, and id love to hear more about it (the article at the end gives some views but I’m sure he has many more things to say).
