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From Australia to Zimbabwe, Vietnam to Argentina, Lexie Alphard has seen it all and even broken a few world records along the way.

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For me, breaking world records is always about challenging myself and seeing what's possible.

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When she was just 21 years old, she stamped her passport into the history books, becoming the youngest person to visit every country.

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This was a dream of mine for so many years. I got to travel a lot with my family as a and fell in love with it. I started backpacking when I turned 18, and a crazy three and a half years later, I ended up breaking that world record and celebrating it in New York City.

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Now at 25, Lexie has been running down a new dream, circumnavigating the globe in a Ford electric vehicle.

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It comes to electric vehicle travel. There's so much speculation on what it's like around the world, if it's a viable solution or alternative to normal cars. And I wanted to see what was out there, and I definitely found out.

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Here's a look at Lexi's most recent globe-trodding journey by the numbers. 200 days, 27 countries, six continents, and more than 18,000 miles.

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Follow me here to watch a new world record be set in real-time.

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Lexie documenting her journey and its challenges on social media as LexieLimitless.

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I want to show you how I charge my electric vehicle in the middle of nowhere.

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From troubles finding places to charge in Zimbabwe.

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There was literally zero infrastructure for electric vehicles, which meant I had to get a bit more creative. I started doing domestic charging, which is basically using normal household outlets to charge my car. I have to drive in like five hours.

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To sickness in India that threatened to derail the whole trip. It's so sick.

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This can't be happening again. It's almost It feels like a domino effect when something like that happens because I have to pick up the pace at some points.

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Lexie determined to finish that moment unfolding earlier this week in Southern France. We did it. She says what kept her going was the support she got from young women all around the world.

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I get messages that have said that seeing a person that looks like them going out into the world and being brave and making the most out of every experience has inspired them to take on other challenges and get out of their comfort zones in their own lives. And that's really, at the end of the day, what it's all about.

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Priya Shreither, MBC News.

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