Today is your day Boomer! Wow, this is quite an accomplishment for a Boomer....for anyone really! This is Ron Perrier from Courtenay, B.C. who spent the last 18 years travelling to every country in the world! And according to the encouraging-travel website Nomadmania, that is the magic number of 193. Ron is retired and aged 74; here are some of his special memories: "walking 2,000 kilometres of the Camino de Santiago, travelling overland on the Silk Road from Xian, China to Israel, completing 107 dives in places like Palau, Raja Ampats, Komodo and Sipadan, and spending two years driving 200,000 km from Iceland to Azerbaijan."(Summerland Review) Despite seeing some of the most beautiful places in the world, Perrier very rarely takes photos. He prefers to travel alone, forgoing any tours, resorts, guides, or even souvenirs. Instead, he says that travelling the way he does is much easier when it is done on the cheap, alone and with no itinerary. Okay....sounds kind of lonely, but I guess it works really well for him! By the way, some trips weren't without problems. In Afghanistan, he "was detained by the Taliban; they took me to their secret compound and I was blindfolded and interrogated for five hours." Hmmmm. Sounds scary. Better do your research, Boomers, before you leave. Cheers.

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