Records
- By 2012, nineteen members had visited every place on the list. John Clouse, from Evansville, IN, was the first to travel to all the countries and was recognized by the 1995 Guinness World Records as "the world's most traveled man."
- The most pointless record of the youngest to join the club was Lani Shea, whose parents, Jeff and Novita from Novato, CA, reported that she reached her 100th country at an age of two years and eight months. She also set a new Guinness World Record under the category of "Youngest person to travel to all seven continents," accomplished in December 2003 when she was two years and 307 days. The record is currently held by Vaidehi Thirrupathy. But really this should apply to people who have traveled because it was their choice not their parents.
- Charles Veley from San Francisco in 2003 became the youngest person, at 37, to visit all countries and territories, having visited all but about 70 countries in just over three years.
Read more about this topic: Travelers' Century Club List Of Countries
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“Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)
“Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
“It’s always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it’s always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.”
—Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981)