Originally Posted by
rankourabu
congrats on every country!
I still have quite a bit to go, hopefully up to 140 by my 35th birthday (late 2014)... ... but to be honest .. there are some places that I just have no desire to visit, even for a tick on the list ... or are prohibitively expensive to justify a trip there.
Also, I try not to 'visit' a place for a half day just so I can count it
Interesting that your flightmemory link shows only 85 countries. I assume that the difference is places that you've just driven to.
In the comparisons that you can get with a premium FM membership, they list one person with 208 countries, vs. an average of just 4 for all FM members. I have to confess that, in FM, I've fabricated a couple of short flights to countries that I've only visited on a cruise. For example, I didn't really fly into the Monaco heliport.