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UnfairRepresent
06/04/19 10:41:15 PM
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One 21-year-old American woman has achieved an unbelievable feat that many only dream of visiting every country on earth. Her epic odyssey is slated to smash the current Guinness World Record for the youngest person to see all 196 sovereign nations.

Accomplishing the lifelong dream as she stepped foot in North Korea on May 31, Lexie Alford told Fox News that she immediately felt relief.

I've been working through extreme anxiety for the past six-plus months overcoming the obstacles that go along with getting into some of the least accessible places in the world. It wasn't until the moment in that obscure conference room, of all places, that it really sunk in how far Ive come, Alford said.

Not many times in life does everything that you've worked towards for years culminate into a single moment, the Nevada City, Calif. native described the overwhelming rush of gratitude, joy and satisfaction that came with the milestone.

The wayfarer said she began saving up at age 12 to fund the goal of visiting all 196 sovereign nations on the planet and never looked back on the promise.

By her 18th birthday, Alford realized she had traveled to 72 nations putting her that much closer to breaking the world record. In October 2016, she realized that she could see the 124 remaining nations on her list in time to set an official record and got moving.

Known as LexieLimitless on Instagram to her following of over 44,000, Alford admits she decided to pursue the record full-time, in part, to inspire others.

"Honestly, in the beginning, 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," the woman told Forbes of her passion for travel. "It wasn't until things started getting really challenging that I realized I was inspiring people around me, especially young women. I was determined to show everyone that the world isn't as scary as the media portrays it to be and that there's kindness everywhere."

Graduating from high school two years early and earning an associates degree in her home state, Alford officially began pursuing the record full time in 2016 traveling alone for weeks of the journey, and navigating challenges like securing visas to meet her goal despite the frustration of bureaucracy.

I traveled solo for over seven months, throughout the past two years, to 50 or so countries throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, Central and South America, the Caribbean and the South Pacific Islands, she told Fox News.

Obtaining all the visas required for American citizens was one of the most difficult aspects of breaking this record. I spent years applying and reapplying for visas in both the US and abroad," she added, having been forced to apply for the proper paperwork in London, Senegal, the Ivory Coast, and the United Arab Emirates, among others.

Alford says that her mission was completely self-funded, and that she made ends meet with a few branded deals throughout her journey, in addition to some photography and blogging work while abroad, plus her savings. She also found time to co-host a travel show that will hit airwaves in November, she said.

To further make the budget work, the adventurer said she invested much time into researching the best flight deals and most affordable accommodations on the road, too.

As for favorite destinations, Alford has a penchant for places off the beaten path that she describes as misunderstood by some like Venezuela and Pakistan.

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UnfairRepresent
06/04/19 10:41:24 PM
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One of my absolute favorite places is Angel Falls in Venezuela. My friend and I were the only people camping at the falls in Canaima National Park in November 2018 which demonstrated how much the tourism industry has been affected there since the economic crisis began, the explorer told Fox News.
After finally completing the crusade last week, Alford is now tasked with submitting nearly 10,000 pieces of evidence to Guinness World Records in chronological order! to document her travels and secure the title, she told Fox News.

I also loved visiting Northern Pakistan, the natural beauty of the mountains and kindness of the locals was astonishing but again there's barely any tourism in the country because of negative stereotypes about the country in the media, she continued. The most pleasant surprise about traveling to all these misunderstood areas of the world was that the countries that I had least expectations for ended up being the most incredible.

After finally completing the crusade last week, Alford is now tasked with submitting nearly 10,000 pieces of evidence to Guinness World Records in chronological order! to document her travels and secure the title, she told Fox News.

Though the formal accreditation process will likely be lengthy, the adventurer is now officially in good company, joining the ranks of James Asquith of the U.K., who became the youngest person to travel to all sovereign countries in 2013 at age 24, and Cassie De Pecol of Connecticut, who became the first woman on the fastest trip ever to see all the countries in the world in 2017.

Whats next for Alford? After achieving the massive life goal, she told Fox News that she plans to continue to travel as much as possible." On her next big trip, she hopes to summit Mount Nyiragongo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to see the world's largest lava lake.

Shes also at work on a book about my experiences in every country and the lessons I've learned along the way, with plans to host a TEDx talk on June 15.

As corny as it sounds, my advice for young people is to believe that you can do anything you set your mind to do. If you want to travel, you have to prioritize it over other aspects of your life, she told Fox News. You have to make sacrifices to travel the world but if its something thats genuinely important to you, its only a matter of time until you can make it a reality.


Full Article: https://www.foxnews.com/travel/american-woman-21-youngest-person-travel-every-country
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Unless a billionaire goes ham on his baby it's going to be hard for anyone to top that record
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Samman123
06/04/19 10:42:34 PM
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Could be using that slim body for more pleasurable services
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eggcorn
06/04/19 10:43:46 PM
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Nidhoggr
06/04/19 10:44:34 PM
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Not as good as my record of sleeping with a woman from every country on earth.
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UnfairRepresent
06/04/19 10:45:05 PM
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PlCCOLO posted...
Her face looks rough in your photo but shes actually hot

She's not claiming to be a model dude
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Tropicalwood
06/04/19 10:47:40 PM
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Must be nice not having to worry about working.
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hockeybub89
06/04/19 10:49:09 PM
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I like how almost all those pics featured in the article are from woman-hating countries
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UnfairRepresent
06/04/19 10:50:56 PM
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Tropicalwood posted...
Must be nice not having to worry about working.

Erm

She was working the entire time after she graduated from high school
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Shotgunnova
06/04/19 10:51:22 PM
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But did she visit Yuktobania?
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bknight
06/04/19 10:51:31 PM
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I'd like to show her the capital of my country, if you know what I mean.
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Nidhoggr
06/04/19 10:51:39 PM
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PlCCOLO posted...
What? I said she was hot, fucking read

The woman literally set out to complete her dream of visiting every country in the world and your first reaction is to post about her attractiveness. This is why women need feminism.
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Tropicalwood
06/04/19 11:03:19 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
Tropicalwood posted...
Must be nice not having to worry about working.

Erm

She was working the entire time after she graduated from high school

No daddy is clearly rich, no other way she would have 72 nations under her belt by 18 and the capital for such a trip with a measly two years of fresh out of highschool work.
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UnfairRepresent
06/04/19 11:08:12 PM
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Tropicalwood posted...
UnfairRepresent posted...
Tropicalwood posted...
Must be nice not having to worry about working.

Erm

She was working the entire time after she graduated from high school

No daddy was clearly rich, no other way she would have 72 nations under her belt by 18


Parents were travel agents.

and the capital for such a trip with a measly two years of fresh out of highschool work.


Ah I see. Because you are unable to do it, clearly a woman can't either.

She explains how she did it in the article. Post high-school aka the difficult countries, It was self-funded and she budgeted like hell.

Be happy for her success, don't be jealous because of your lack of success
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Colorahdo
06/04/19 11:13:45 PM
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Yeah, can't believe more people don't visit northern Pakistan...
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Tropicalwood
06/04/19 11:15:24 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
Tropicalwood posted...
UnfairRepresent posted...
Tropicalwood posted...
Must be nice not having to worry about working.

Erm

She was working the entire time after she graduated from high school

No daddy was clearly rich, no other way she would have 72 nations under her belt by 18


Parents were travel agents.

and the capital for such a trip with a measly two years of fresh out of highschool work.


Ah I see. Because you are unable to do it, clearly a woman can't either.

She explains how she did it in the article. Post high-school aka the difficult countries, It was self-funded and she budgeted like hell.

Be happy for her success, don't be jealous because of your lack of success

You ain't budgeting over a 100 trips on two years work out of highschool, especially in a state that loves to fuck you in all directions with taxes, daddy has the money.

Also is able to surprisingly take his family on four trips a year.
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UnfairRepresent
06/04/19 11:16:17 PM
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Tropicalwood posted...
I ain't budgeting over a 100 trips on two years work out of highschool, especially in a state that loves to fuck you in all directions with taxes


I fixed that for you :)
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MisterPengy
06/04/19 11:20:50 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
as she stepped foot in North Korea on May 31, Lexie Alford told Fox News that she immediately felt relief.


Wow, it's also the first time in history some one was happy to be in North Korea.
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Tropicalwood
06/04/19 11:20:54 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
Tropicalwood posted...
I ain't budgeting over a 100 trips on two years work out of highschool, especially in a state that loves to fuck you in all directions with taxes


I fixed that for you :)

Would sure love to pay for 4 years of trips with just two years of savings. Must be nice to have a rich family the savings.
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HairyThotter
06/04/19 11:22:09 PM
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lol she's the queen of all dating profiles "I love to travel! Been all over world! Literally!"
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hockeybub89
06/04/19 11:23:17 PM
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MisterPengy posted...
UnfairRepresent posted...
as she stepped foot in North Korea on May 31, Lexie Alford told Fox News that she immediately felt relief.


Wow, it's also the first time in history some one was happy to be in North Korea.

lol
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UnfairRepresent
06/04/19 11:25:04 PM
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Tropicalwood posted...
UnfairRepresent posted...
Tropicalwood posted...
I ain't budgeting over a 100 trips on two years work out of highschool, especially in a state that loves to fuck you in all directions with taxes


I fixed that for you :)

Would sure love to pay for 4 years of trips with just two years of savings. Must be nice to have a rich family the savings.


Good thing it wasn't just savings and she was working at the same time.

You're acting like people out of high-school traveling the world is a rare concept. Europe and Australia are fucking full of em. It happens all the time, she just did it with skill and gusto.

It was a self-funded trip.

Your envy is unhealthy.
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PrettyBoyFloyd
06/04/19 11:29:40 PM
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hockeybub89 posted...
MisterPengy posted...
UnfairRepresent posted...
as she stepped foot in North Korea on May 31, Lexie Alford told Fox News that she immediately felt relief.


Wow, it's also the first time in history some one was happy to be in North Korea.

lol

Imagine a foreigner doing this and ending up in Detroit, Chicago or Baltimore ?
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Tropicalwood
06/04/19 11:29:59 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
Tropicalwood posted...
UnfairRepresent posted...
Tropicalwood posted...
I ain't budgeting over a 100 trips on two years work out of highschool, especially in a state that loves to fuck you in all directions with taxes


I fixed that for you :)

Would sure love to pay for 4 years of trips with just two years of savings. Must be nice to have a rich family the savings.


Good thing it wasn't just savings and she was working at the same time.

You're acting like people out of high-school traveling the world is a rare concept. Europe and Australia are fucking full of em. It happens all the time, she just did it with skill and gusto.

It was a self-funded trip.

Your envy is unhealthy.

There are plenty of bums that can hope a train to another country without a care in the world, not a lot of rich kids traveling the whole world while pretending it was hard without their oldman's sponsorship :)
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Colorahdo
06/05/19 10:00:14 AM
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lol at the "must be nice" comments. Must be nice to stay in a hotel and spend thousands of dollars going to resorts on your vacations.

She wasn't staying in hotels the whole time. It costs like $200/mo to live comfortably in third world countries, if that. I lived in a hostel in Bolivia for three months -- $4/day. Food was about $2/day

There are so many traveling bums out there, you have no idea how most of the world works if you think she had a vacation in every country and took a flight from New York every time
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Eat More Beef
06/05/19 10:16:50 AM
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I admire the lofty goal she set out and accomplish better than I ever could (My goal is to see 33 countries before I die cause my dad visited 32/I'm in my thirties and have only seen 20).

I have to wonder, however, with such a back breaking schedule in the last two years, if she got to really chill in the countries for more than a couple days or if she counted getting a train trip across one as being visited or what?

Either way, I'm interested to read her book and catch the travel show. Seems like it would be pretty rad.
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GiftedACIII
06/05/19 10:21:40 AM
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Good stuff.
Alford was born into a family of travel agents, which gave her the unique opportunity to tour exotic places like Cambodia, Dubai and Egypt during her childhood, Forbes reports.

She mustve made her family really proud.
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UnfairRepresent
06/05/19 2:31:47 PM
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Eat More Beef posted...

I have to wonder, however, with such a back breaking schedule in the last two years, if she got to really chill in the countries for more than a couple days or if she counted getting a train trip across one as being visited or what?

She seems pretty happy and is writing a book
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CanuckCowboy
06/05/19 2:34:54 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
Tropicalwood posted...
UnfairRepresent posted...
Tropicalwood posted...
I ain't budgeting over a 100 trips on two years work out of highschool, especially in a state that loves to fuck you in all directions with taxes


I fixed that for you :)

Would sure love to pay for 4 years of trips with just two years of savings. Must be nice to have a rich family the savings.


Good thing it wasn't just savings and she was working at the same time.

You're acting like people out of high-school traveling the world is a rare concept. Europe and Australia are fucking full of em. It happens all the time, she just did it with skill and gusto.

It was a self-funded trip.

Your envy is unhealthy.


I dont see how its even possible to self fund that at that age. Unless it was self funded with money she got from her parents for her 18th bday or something.
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AlephZero
06/05/19 2:37:11 PM
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Isn't it almost impossible for an American to get a visa for some countries. I wonder how she managed it.
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06/05/19 2:41:07 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
Known as LexieLimitless on Instagram to her following of over 44,000, Alford admits she decided to pursue the record full-time, in part, to inspire others.

This is pretty surprising, I would have expected her to have way more followers
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UnfairRepresent
06/05/19 2:46:06 PM
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CanuckCowboy posted...


I dont see how its even possible to self fund that at that age. Unless it was self funded with money she got from her parents for her 18th bday or something.

Saved her money in high school, budgeted and worked while she traveled.

Plenty of people do it, they just do it for a few months or one year and travel Europe or travel across the states.

Basically she's just a lot smarter than you and Tropiclalwood

AlephZero posted...
Isn't it almost impossible for an American to get a visa for some countries. I wonder how she managed it.

She said that was the hardest part.
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The Trent
06/05/19 2:48:40 PM
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she's so smart she invented a machine that turned her feces into currency of whatever country she's in
get on her level, losers
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CanuckCowboy
06/05/19 2:52:00 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
CanuckCowboy posted...


I dont see how its even possible to self fund that at that age. Unless it was self funded with money she got from her parents for her 18th bday or something.

Saved her money in high school, budgeted and worked while she traveled.

Plenty of people do it, they just do it for a few months or one year and travel Europe or travel across the states.

Basically she's just a lot smarter than you and Tropiclalwood

AlephZero posted...
Isn't it almost impossible for an American to get a visa for some countries. I wonder how she managed it.

She said that was the hardest part.


Lmao

She aint gonna date ya bud.
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EscapeFromHell
06/05/19 2:54:39 PM
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Good for her!

Although, I did lol at the part that said it was a "lifelong dream." :) She's 21 and her life has just begun, but I guess that's all about perspective, so...

It's so awesome to see someone set a goal, work hard, and accomplish it. Great story. :)
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RebelElite791
06/05/19 2:54:41 PM
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Nothing pisses CE off more than good looking women who travel
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spudger
06/05/19 2:56:28 PM
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must be nice to have so much extra money and free time and no responsibilities.

wish i had that
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UnfairRepresent
06/05/19 2:58:19 PM
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spudger posted...
must be nice to have so much extra money and free time and no responsibilities.

wish i had that

What extra money and lack of responsibilities did she have that you didn't?

Sounds like you're making excuses to me
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Eat More Beef
06/05/19 2:59:12 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
Eat More Beef posted...

I have to wonder, however, with such a back breaking schedule in the last two years, if she got to really chill in the countries for more than a couple days or if she counted getting a train trip across one as being visited or what?

She seems pretty happy and is writing a book


Which I mentioned at the end of my post and expressed interest in reading... Why did you not bother to quote that part?
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The Admiral
06/05/19 3:01:39 PM
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Kudos to her, thats impressive.

Also, nothing wrong with pointing out that shes hot.
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Kraidette
06/06/19 11:35:47 AM
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Actually, this is false. My mother visit all the countries when she was pregnant with me.

And since fetuses are considered living now I am the youngest person, doing so before I was born.
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darkphoenix181
06/06/19 11:42:22 AM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
The wayfarer said she began saving up at age 12 to fund the goal of visiting all 196 sovereign nations on the planet and never looked back on the promise.


Rich

Let's celebrate affluenza.

One plane ticket would have destroyed her savings unless her parents giving her hundreds in allowance.
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RebelElite791
06/06/19 2:36:54 PM
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darkphoenix181 posted...

One plane ticket would have destroyed her savings

Lol...???

Curious how much you think flying costs
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pinky0926
06/06/19 2:40:27 PM
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She loook 100% like the kind of person who can afford to do this. I can imagine her instagram was full of yoga poses and pictures with some random dude's hand coming from behind the camera.

Still, props to her. Impressive.
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pinky0926
06/06/19 2:42:35 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
Parents were travel agents.


....and?

What kind of clout do you think travel agents have man, lmao. You're not getting free flights as a travel agent in 2019.
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theAteam
06/06/19 2:43:59 PM
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Even if it were fully funded by her parents it would still be quite an accomplishment.

I don't see rich kids doing it very often.
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UnfairRepresent
06/07/19 6:17:49 AM
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theAteam posted...
Even if it were fully funded by her parents

It wasn't.

People are just making excuses
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