Alexis Alford
Alexis Rose Alford, also known as Lexie Limitless, is an American woman who is notable for traveling to 196 countries before reaching the age of twenty-one.[3][4] She holds the official Guinness World Record for being the youngest person to have visited all of those countries.[3] In June 2019, she gave a TED talk on her travel experiences.[5]
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| Born | Alexis Rose Alford[1] April 10, 1998[2] | ||||||
| Nationality | American | ||||||
| Occupation | Adventure traveler, photographer, blogger, YouTube personality | ||||||
| Website | lexielimitless | ||||||
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| Years active | 2017-present | ||||||
| Genre | Travel | ||||||
| Subscribers | 137,000 (May 4, 2020) | ||||||
| Total views | 2,935,339 (May 4, 2020) | ||||||
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Alford grew up in a small town in California. She decided by the age of twelve that she wanted to explore the world.[6] Her parents were travel agents and she learned the skills of booking reservations and planning an itinerary from them.[6] When she turned 18, she had already visited 72 countries with her parents.[7] She had saved up funds by working during her teenage years, so that most of her traveling expenses were self-funded. In addition, she supplements her income by blogging, doing freelance photography, and selling prints; according to Alford, she spends an "ungodly amount of time researching the best deals and thoroughly learning how to travel to exotic places on a budget".[7] While traveling, she describes herself as a minimalist, carrying only the supplies that she needs in a backpack along with her videography equipment.[5]
I simply wanted to push the limits of what I thought I could do with my life and see as much of the world as possible in the process.
— Alford in 2019[5]
References
- Every Passport Stamp (Why I Have 8 Passports) on YouTube
- 3 Years to Break a World Record: Was It Worth It? on YouTube
- Our correspondent (February 6, 2020). "How 'Lexie Limitless' became the youngest person to visit every country". Manorama Online. Retrieved March 6, 2020.
...According to The Guinness World Records, on October 4, 2019 Alexis Alford became the youngest person... The 21-year-old most popularly known by her Instagram handle @lexielimitless hails from a small town...
- Priya Srivastava (August 28, 2019). "This 21-year old US woman has become the youngest to travel all 196 countries". Times of India. Retrieved March 6, 2020.
- Katie Mather of In The Know (November 24, 2019). "21-year-old smashes world record for youngest person to visit every country". Yahoo News. Retrieved March 6, 2020.
...New Guinness World Record holder Lexie Alford ... Alford visited all 196 countries at the age of 21, beating out previous record holder Taylor Demonbreun ... Working at the travel agency while living at home allowed her to save up money ... IAlford said she's a minimalist...
- Shauna Beni (July 29, 2019). "This Gen Zer Just Became the Youngest Person to Travel to Every Country: Alexis Alford—or Lexie Limitless, as she's known on Instagram—has set the record at just 21 years old". Conde Nast Traveler. Retrieved March 6, 2020.
... By age 12, Alexis Alford had already decided that she wanted to take time off and explore the real world ... Alford, now 21, has accomplished her goal, stopping the clock in North Korea on May 31. Along her journey she has become a travel influencer known as Lexie Limitless, racking up over 270,000....
- Poorvi Gupta (June 6, 2019). "Lexie Alford: Youngest Person Ever To Visit All Countries". SheThePeople.TV. Retrieved March 6, 2020.
...like for Lexie Alford, the American woman has become the youngest person ever to travel to all the countries in the world including North Korea and other such extremely inaccessible countries at just 21 years of age...