How many countries in the world in 2025?

How many countries in the world in 2025? UPDATED JANUARY 2025: If you ask how many countries in the world are there in 2024. Well, the answer is that technically speaking there are 197 countries in the world. From a travel perspective, you...
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My 2025 Goals and plans for the year

My 2025 Goals and plans for the year Woah I’m busy. And already late on my 2025 resolutions. You know this year, it’s been a weird process writing my 2025 plans. Way back, since 2012, all the way up to the 2024 plan blog post, I...
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MY 2024 YEAR END REVIEW; NEW BABY! $300k+ online, South Pole, Sahara Ultramarathon etc

MY 2024 YEAR END REVIEW; NEW BABY! $300k+ online, South Pole, Sahara Ultramarathon etc It’s the time of year when I look at back at the blog post I wrote in the last week of 2023, to see my plans for the year of 2024. Then I see what...
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How I donated $300,000 Thanks to My Blog

How I donated $300,000 Thanks to My Blog The title may be a little ‘clickbaity’. Apologies. But I want to show people what’s possible when they take action. The $300,000 has been donated, raised and responsibility for buil...
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Join me on my 2025 Trips; Syria, Mauritania, Turkmenistan and more!

Join me on my 2025 Trips; Syria, Mauritania, Turkmenistan and more! I haven’t been in an airplane for 6 weeks, and I must admit, it feels pretty good! Why? I have some personal stuff going on in Thailand so I need to be home for a bit...
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Travel to Somalia; How I Traveled to Mogadishu

Travel to Somalia; How I Traveled to Mogadishu I’ll admit it, I was scared to travel to Somalia properly, and even back in 2010 during my overland trip from South Africa to Syria by public transport stint, when I had the chance to vis...
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MY 2023 YEAR END REVIEW; Money Made, Countries Visited, Life, Stresses and Family

MY 2023 YEAR END REVIEW; Money Made, Countries Visited, Life, Stresses and Family Another year in the locker. So time for another recap of my year. Each year, in January I write about my goals, plans and resolutions for the year ahead (you...
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Lessons from turning 40

Lessons from turning 40 I turned 40 yesterday. And I do it with gratitude, with no negative attachments to getting older. Equally, I don’t have it all figured out, and mostly I make it up as I go along but it’s going ok for me s...
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UK OFFER: Business Class for FREE! British Airways American Express Card AIRMILES OFFER 42,000 AVIOS!

UK OFFER: Business Class for FREE! British Airways American Express Card AIRMILES OFFER 42,000 AVIOS! Business class for free. Sounds good right? It’s not a scam. I mentioned to you guys before, but depressingly in my 10 year 261 flig...
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My 2021 Year Review; Successes, Failures, Finances, Travels and Health

My 2021 Year Review; Successes, Failures, Finances, Travels and Health It’s that time of year again. Something I have been doing every single year for the last 7 years (and wish I had done since I started all this online business, blo...
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