NORTHVILLE, Mich. — Michael Zervos intends to travel the globe in a record-breaking journey of happiness.
After a year of planning, Zervos, 35, recently set out to break a Guinness World Record by traveling to every country in the world, one after the next, faster than anyone’s done it before. The current record is held by Taylor Demonbreun of Alabama, who in 2018 achieved the feat in 554 days .
Since his departure on Jan. 17, Zervos has been to Russia and Turkey. He’s currently making his way through Africa, one country at a time.
But Project Kosmos , as Zervos calls the epic adventure, is about more than a globetrotting trip focused on how fast he can get in and out of the 193 United Nations countries, plus two “observer states,” that Guinness says a person must visit for a shot at the record.
Along the way, he also plans to film snippets of happiness and share those stories with the world on his Instagram page .
“I realized I did not want to just travel and break this record if that was the only thing I was getting out of it, just the thrills,” he said. “I wanted to get something I could share with other people. I wanted to create art out of it.”