Nearly every country. The point was the perspective.
Visiting almost every country on Earth is a personal goal, and an ongoing one. But the value was never the number. It was a decade of learning how business, risk, and trust actually work in places that play by different rules. This is the map, and what the road taught me.
164/197countries visited
Every UN member state plus Taiwan, Kosovo, Palestine, and the Vatican. No transits, no airport counts. Most of the recent ones routed around business travel.
Visited, 164Planned, 19Still to go, 14
Lived in
Seven countries have been home long enough to learn them properly, not just pass through.
PortugalBelgiumCzechiaGermanySerbiaSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab Emirates
From the road
What the travelling actually taught me.
The useful part of the journey was never the count. It was calibration, market by market, on how people read risk and trust. Those lessons live in the Field Notes.