About Lee Abbamonte

“Not all those who wander are lost.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” - Samuel Johnson

Bungy Jumping 2004, Victoria Falls on bridge between Zimbabwe and Zambia
Lee Abbamonte is the youngest American to visit every country in the world. The former Wall Street wiz and current entrepreneur has appeared on NBC, CNN, ESPN and Fox News and has been featured in the New York Times, Bloomberg, Smart Money, Slate, OK! Magazine, the Washington Post, and on Peter Greenberg radio. He has visited 301 countries and is one of the world’s most-traveled people. Lee is an active member of the exclusive Travelers Century Club, a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and a member of the Circumnavigators Club.

Some of Lee’s extreme traveling highlights include hang gliding over Rio de Janeiro, dodging bullets in the Libyan civil war, conquering the world’s highest bungee jump in South Africa, tracking silverback gorillas in Rwanda, summiting Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, going on safari in the Serengeti, and white-water rafting down the level-five rapids of the Zambezi River in Zimbabwe.

Some of the more far-flung amazing places Lee has been to includes: Timbuktu; Afghanistan; Easter Island; Madagascar; Sumatra; Qatar; Victoria Falls; Galapagos Islands; Taj Mahal; Syria; Kazakhstan; Southern Sudan; Colombia; Black Sea; Dominica; Togo; Ras Al Khaimah; Congo; Amazon Jungle; Samarkand; Laos; Azores; Papua New Guinea; Lord Howe Island; Cabinda; Abkhazia; Montserrat; Pyramids; Haiti; Guinea-Bissau; Lakshadweep Islands; Petra; Midway; Uruguay; Angkor Wat; Burundi; Outback Australia; Ethiopia; French Guiana; Congo; Sri Lanka; East Timor; Sahara Desert; Goa; Tikal; Cote D’Ivoire; Alaska; Bay of Bengal; Tibet; Aitutaki; Trans Dniester; Turkmenistan; Yap; Paraguay; Liberia; Russia; Java; Cappadocia; Somalia; Lampedusa; Western Sahara; Libya; Faroe Islands; Nauru; Iguassu Falls; Guam; Rwanda; St. Kitts & Nevis; Sierra Leone; Borneo; Mongolia; Christmas Island; Yemen; Isla Margarita; Chad; Azerbaijan; Philippines; Benin; Wallis and Futuna; Nepal; Guyana; Great Wall of China; Ogasawara; Zanzibar; Abu Dhabi; Barbados; La Reunion; Gabon; Tonga; Caspian Sea; Vanuatu; Angola; Thailand; Equatorial Guinea; Tajikistan; Machu Picchu; Iraq; Maldives; Costa Rica; Mauritania; El Salvador; Oman; Djibouti; Bali; San Andres; Mozambique; Burkina Faso; Martinique; Algeria; North Korea; Tasmania; Bangladesh; Palau; Uganda; Venezuela; Rodrigues; Teotihuacan; Iran; Dogon Country; Bhutan; Niue; Seychelles.

“I believe in globalization of everything including people. I believe that I am a citizen of Earth. I believe that people around the world are at their core, basically good and the same. I believe that more people should experience the world and the way traveling can open their eyes and minds to different and exciting things. I believe in just being myself. I believe in life.” - Lee Abbamonte

“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” - Jawaharlal Nehru

“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things; air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky, all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.”> - Cesare Pavese