I&#x27;ve been vaguely following the blog called Once Upon a Saga [1], where Torbjørn Pedersen is chronicling his even more ambitious project of visiting every country in the world without flight.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.onceuponasaga.dk&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.onceuponasaga.dk&#x2F;</a><p>I think being from an unthreatening country (Denmark) and traveling as a representative of the Red Cross is helping him avoid the distrust, bureaucracy, and corruption that the author of this article encountered.