Alexis Alford

Alexis Rose Alford (born April 10, 1998), also known as Lexie Limitless, is an American woman who is notable for traveling to 196 countries before reaching the age of twenty-one. She holds the official Guinness World Record for being the youngest person to have visited all of those countries. In June 2019, she gave a TED talk on her travel experiences.
Alford was born and raised in Nevada City, California. She decided by the age of twelve that she wanted to explore the world. Her parents were travel agents and she learned the skills of booking reservations and planning an itinerary from them. When she turned 18, she had already visited 72 countries with her parents. 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". While traveling, she describes herself as a minimalist, carrying only the supplies that she needs in a backpack along with her videography equipment.