Fascinating story of a Danish traveler who visited every country on Earth, only by land and boat.

  • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    But does he have - realistically - any reasonable amount of contact with a given population by just traveling through their country?

    Think about it, if you were to travel through your home country by train or car, do you have a somewhat representative sample of what life is there? Likely, you’ll only have contact with a handful of people (beyond purely functional interactions). Do 5 people who all happen to travel with the same transport medium and also speak English represent a good sample?