The Worlds Most Traveled Couple

I have followed the Forwoods for years. Always good stories. I like their take on traveling and on people. Even for those of you that are not motorcycle riders, it would be worth your time to read the stories.I also like stories from Greg Frazier www.horizonsunlimited.com/gregfrazier/new.shtml

Thank you for your helpful advice. I have been hooked on traveling ever since taking a 2.5 month trip last year across Colombia, Peru and Panama. I only wish I had discovered the value of your sight sooner.I plan to upload a local hotel here in Fairhope, Alabama before going on the road again and exchanging web pages for a room - all this with the help of a man named Andy, the man from Guatamala - today that is - and tomorrow the man from ??? Where will you be from next?Again, thank you.

De Nada,My name is Andy, my name is Foreigner, my name is Estranger, my name is Farang, my name is Hey Joe, I am a Hobo, a Tramp, a person who follows the path...Today in Guatemala, I am Gringo.Life is Good, AndyNote, I will wander soon over to Rio Dulce, hopefully soon to Iquitos, Peru, over to Europe, either North to Russia or South to Africa.

Hello Andy,The World's Most Traveled Couple might actually be this Swiss couple who have traveled continously since 1984 in a Toyota LandCruiser, check out their website:http://www.weltrekordreise.chAlthough Charles and also the motorcycle couple you mention have visited more countries, I think nobody can beat those Swiss people in terms of longest journey (time and distance). Truly amazing!

Yes, this Swiss couple is a contender for most traveled couple, and thanks for posting this.It is possible I earn an ungodly amount of money soon with HoboHideOut.com, and what do I dream of, I dream of doing research on the history of travel, and try to clean up some of these stories.I have trouble explaining my own trip, and I logged about it over 3500 times.Charles list of 673http://www.mosttraveledpeople.com/_mtpshowflashmasterlist.cfmThis list of geographical areas is the best record I have found on or about the numbers of places to visit.Then:1. Time spent traveling.2. Continuous Travel3. How much money spent4. How many countries lived in as oppposed to moving.5. People who most or best understand the cultures of the planet.6. People who most understand the 7000 plus languages.I tend to believe there are tons of Oil workers, Embassy workers, and Multi-national corporate workers that would make both of these travel couples seem small if we knew what they was doing and where they went.Critique and Analysis:To undertand, I must know or learn, observe.1. How they earn money to travel.2. Documentation.3. Did they travel or live in countries.I feel to read about tavelers it is essential you critique how they earn money for travel. Then how much of the time was spent on Visas, and their understanding of cultures.There are oil jobbers, CIA types, Soldier types, and women chaser. There are people that work for News Organizations like CNN and BBC that visit more people.MONEY. Money is the issue, these two couples are under-funded to visited in an extreme manner many cultures. I am pre-occupied with money, money is the grease that allows me the freedom to travel.Travel writers and I am not a travel writer in the traditional sense are the worst travelers on the planet.Fame or the desire for fame is sand people put in the works, if you want to be famous, I guarantee it will stop the travel machine. This is why I believe there are women chasing, oil jobber types, tend to be mercenary types who would make me or these two travelers look like children.They have the money, they work this 28 day on, 28 day off systems. James Michener, I respect as a person that has observed and studied more cultures than an person I know.Paul Theroux is interesting, however more of an history of travel as it relates to books.As for me, I am not even close, I will say though that the counting of countries is not what I pay attention to with travelers. If I was interviewing Charles, or the Swiss Couple, or anybody, I would ask about how they earn money, then get in Visa talks, with them explaing the different between a country, protectorate, enclave, island and the way to many to count ways of defining a location.Undertanding of other countrie, in a way I think Marriage stops or brings people to almost a complete halt on cultural understanding. Oil well workers banging all the girls on the planet get a person sitting in bed explaining the guts, feeling and motivations of a people, they are forced to related in the most intimate ways.Cars and Motorcycle are the worst ways to feel close to a people, they have you avoid people and drive right on by I do think travel needs a few serius historians.However, if you know travelers, they are close to sociopath in nature... hehehe selfishness personified.