Mike Spencer Bown

Mike Spencer Bown - Canada

He visited all the 193 independent countries of the UN and spent 30 years on the road.

Mike Spencer Bown (born c. 1969) is a Canadian traveler who extensively visited numerous locations backpacking over a span of 23 years, and was said to have been the first tourist to Mogadishu in many years. Mike, who is a resident of Canada, Calgary has travelled for 23 years in over 190 countries. He has been unwilling to put an exact number on the number of countries visited out of a keenness to avoid arguments about whether some of them are independent nations.

Bown has written a book about his travels.