Travel Blogger Visits 100th Country in 16 Years' Non-stop Travel

Kiev, Ukraine (PRWEB) November 09, 2014

While the world watches the Ukraine crisis from afar, world-renowned travel blogger Andy Lee Graham is relaxing in Kiev, savoring his singular achievement visiting 100 countries in more than 16 years of perpetual world travel.

Ukraine is actually my 105th country 104th if you count Transnistria as a rogue country, said Graham. Number 100 was Greece, which I visited at the beginning of October.

I would have stayed in Athens a while longer, but I wanted to make my way over to Ukraine and get a man-in-the-street feel for whats going on here, said Graham. Rather than fly direct, though, I stopped in Malta, Romania, Moldova and Transnistria along the way.

Another of Grahams claims to fame is visiting countries that tourists and other travelers avoid. He actually prefers so-called developing countries and locations where significant world events are taking shape. He was in Iraq in Aug. 2003 after heavy fighting had ended; Thailand during the 2004 tsunami; and Ivory Coast when its civil war heated up in Feb. 2011.

Hes been to places that are so far off the tourist trail that the beaten path is a days bus ride away, wrote travel writer Tim Leffel in his foreword to Grahams recent book, The Rules of Travel (Real Travelers Press, 2014). He has supported himself for more than a decade on the road, writing about his experiences on multiple continents.

Graham, who has been traveling non-stop since 1998, has traveled to more places and continually traveled longer than any human alive today.

Ive had a challenge out there for years for someone to step forward whos been continuously traveling longer than I have, said Graham. By continuously, I mean you cant have stopped for longer than three months in a row at any one place. So far, no one in the hardcore traveler community has stepped forward. Travel writers arent even on the list.

The founder and chief blogger of HoboTraveler.com, Graham has documented his travels with more than 8,000 blog posts and has posted about 30,000 photos and 2,000 videos since founding the site about 15 years ago.

Whats unique about Andy is that, unlike most other travel writers, he only writes about places hes actually visited actually lived in, really, said Alan Oak, editor at Real Travelers Press. He gets to know local people and almost exclusively patronizes local hotels, restaurants and services. He isnt just sitting all comfy in U.S., rehashing the same old garbage about high-priced tourist traps.