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Is She Really the Youngest Person to Travel to Every Country in the World?

Ever Since She Can Remember

Travel has been a part of her life “since before I can remember,” said Alford. Her parents would take her out of school and place her on independent study for weeks and months at a time each year. But Lexie didn’t ever imagine breaking a Guinness World Record. She was just content being a traveler.

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Venezuela Source: Lexie Limitless

But then in 2016, Lexie got serious about having fun and started working on her mission to travel to every one of the world’s 196 sovereign nations to break the Guinness World Record. It was when she was 18 that she realized that she had already traveled to 72 countries.