Travel log · 72 countries since 1994

Trading and travelling across 70+ countries

Travelling is one of my passions. Trading is what made it possible.

My routine takes about 15 minutes a day. I check a short watchlist against rules I already trust, set the orders, and close the laptop. That fits into a day on the road as easily as a day at my desk in Singapore. So over the years I have kept trading through trips to 70+ countries, from Chernobyl to the mountains of Kyrgyzstan.

How I trade while travelling →

Trading on my laptop at sunrise in Cappadocia, with hot-air balloons behind

72 countries, one stretch at a time

Every country I have been to. The lighter the red, the earlier the trip.

World map with the 72 countries I have visited shaded by era

In the US: 14 national parks, in at least 12 of the 50 states. In Europe: 33 of its 44 countries, or 75%, on the UN’s list.

1994–2006 · +10 · total 11
Growing up
Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Korea (South), Australia, China, New Zealand, India, Taiwan
2008 · +3 · total 14
Working at the Grand Canyon at 21
Hong Kong, USA, Macau
2010 · +19 · total 33
A student exchange in Poland
United Kingdom, Slovenia, Croatia, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Vatican City, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
2011–2015 · +10 · total 43
Asia and the Americas
Japan, Myanmar, Philippines, Peru, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Cuba, Cambodia, Laos
2016–2018 · +5 · total 48
Iceland to Lesotho
Canada, Ireland, Iceland, South Africa, Lesotho
2019 · +13 · total 61
14 former communist countries in a month
Slovakia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Transnistria, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Albania
2022 · +6 · total 67
Central Asia and Turkey
Turkey, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, UAE (Dubai)
2023–2025 · +5 · total 72
Sri Lanka, Norway and the Caucasus
Sri Lanka, Norway, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia

The ones I keep going back to: USA, 3 trips · Australia, 4 trips · Croatia, 3 trips. A repeat trip never adds to the count.

Counted the way this page always has: 72 places, including Singapore, the Vatican and Transnistria.

Trip stories

I post the trips as they happen on Instagram, @iamrecneps.