Sounds like quite a lib in the article but she is pretty hot.
Posted on 02/11/2017 11:32:46 AM PST by nickcarraway
Her eyes teared up as a North Korean soldier gripped her hand in the hardest handshake she’d ever felt. “We’re going to destroy you, America,” he said.
Over the past year and a half, American traveler Cassie DePecol has visited every country in the world, and the greetings she received weren’t always gracious. She had set out to promote peace in her own small way, by meeting people from every country in the world — and she did so at a record pace.
Traveling to all the world’s 196 sovereign nations in 18 months and 26 days, De Pecol made the trip in less than half the time it took the previous Guinness World Record holder.
She recalled telling the North Korean guard about her mission: She was there to show that, even if their governments couldn’t be friends, the two of them didn’t have to be enemies. “I just like to show that we can be friends and we can kind of coexist,” DePecol said.
DePecol, who majored in environmental studies in college, said she felt she couldn’t travel the world without having a larger purpose. She embarked on her world tour in July 2015, promoting sustainable tourism everywhere she went as an ambassador for the International Institute of Peace Through Tourism.
The nonprofit was founded in 1986, the United Nation’s “Year of Peace,” to promote cultural understanding after terrorist incidents sparked tensions between Eastern and Western countries.
Over the course of her trip, she met with mayors and ministers of tourism, presenting them with the institute’s “Declaration of Peace.” SKAL International, an association of tourism professionals with chapters all over the world, considered her a peace ambassador and helped De Pecol arrange meetings with dignitaries in more than 50 countries.
The 27-year-old spoke before more than 16,000 students
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Admirable feat. Something to tell the Les and grandkids. So how exactly did she pay for this?
Sounds like quite a lib in the article but she is pretty hot.
Her eyes teared up as a North Korean soldier gripped her hand in the hardest handshake she’d ever felt. “We’re going to destroy you, America,” he said.
Were those tears of pride?
“she met with mayors and ministers of tourism, presenting them with the institute’s “Declaration of Peace.”
Yeah, she’s a lib. No conservative would come up with something stupid like “Declaration of Peace” unless we nuke em’.
That is pretty cool to have been to all those countries. I have only 186 more to go. LOL. I better get moving.
Absolutely. But I still think we should consider her an Ass of Peace.
Not much fun in that. Being in a country for a couple days is kinda pointless if you really want to understand it. Being stuck in California or NY for a few days isn’t the US as a whole.
Wow. I certainly want to ever go to 80% of these sh—hole countries, but kudos to this young lady. It’s a darned impressive feat. Credit where credit is due.
"She embarked on her world tour in July 2015, promoting sustainable tourism everywhere she went as an ambassador for the International Institute of Peace Through Tourism.
The nonprofit was founded in 1986, the United Nation’s “Year of Peace,” to promote cultural understanding after terrorist incidents sparked tensions between Eastern and Western countries.
In other words you did partially"...
If it’s Tuesday...
I doubt it- being a lib they were probably tears of shame and regret for what America must have done to deserve to be so hated by North Korean soldiers that they would want to strike out in revenge.
Interesting, but what many may call a ‘Fool’s Errand’.
She was after the world record of places visited.
She does know how to crowd fund, so would be a useful person to apply for grants, fundraisers or endowments.
Were she my daughter, I’d be concerned that she would be assaulted. Still, I salute her for doing what she wanted, and not letting fear rule every single day. A life lived in hiding, has never been fully lived. Sometimes, the best outcome really does happen.
I used to hitchhike a lot when I was living in Ohio, going to college. Of course, that was back in the 70’s.
Bu what to do with that residual Gypsy Fever?
Maybe go on a long walk, and just keep on walking!
Did she visit Taiwan?
Or is that part of “One China?”
Another delusional fool.
Yeah, I was being sarcastic Given her little inexperienced, nonproductive fun “tour” and lets face it, that’s what it was, a chance for her to travel the world while masquerading as some “messenger of peace”
Too bad the little Snowflake didn’t stay in NK Utopia.
But they always come back, don’t they? Or threaten to leave US, yet never do.
Lib? Tears of joy.
OMG, that is friggin funny!! (And by the way, she is absolved of all guiltiness per the rules of FR!)
If the Nork soldier had not crunched her hand and threatened America, he would have wound up on Kim Jong Riceball’s dinner table that very night.
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