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🗓️ 16 February 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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0:00.0 | Let me tell you about a guy named Don Parish. |
0:05.6 | Don Parish is an extreme traveler. |
0:08.3 | It started when he was little. |
0:10.6 | Like a lot of kids, Don had a stamp collection. |
0:14.0 | And the more stamps he collected, the more interested he became in where the stamps came |
0:17.6 | from. |
0:18.6 | And by the time he was eight years old, he could look at any stamp and immediately tell |
0:22.4 | you what country it was from. |
0:26.5 | Don is now 77. |
0:28.8 | And instead of stamps, he collects countries. |
0:32.2 | In an average year, Don visits over a dozen of them. |
0:36.0 | He's been every continent, you know, Asia, Czech and Artica, Czech. |
0:41.2 | And he's racked up more than five million air miles, five million. |
0:50.4 | And for a while, Don was ranked number one on a list of the world's most traveled |
0:56.3 | people. |
0:58.4 | There's a list. |
0:59.6 | And Don Parish isn't the only person on it. |
1:01.9 | He's certainly not the world's only extreme traveler. |
1:05.2 | And the list he was ranked on isn't even the world's only extreme travel leaderboard. |
1:11.8 | These extreme travel groups all work in pretty much the same way. |
1:15.6 | They divide the world into pieces, first by country, and then by regions, like states |
1:21.6 | or provinces. |
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