Recently Google emailed me a summary of my travel in 2023. It showed this:

They are able to do that for me because I have location services switched on as well as location history active and subscribe to Google maps

In my case I most likely get more accurate information because I use a Android app called Oziexplorer to record everywhere I take my phone. I switch it on every time I travel somewhere. Even if its going to do the shopping.

Google reconed I traveled 50,106 km or 1.3 times around the world in 2023. That was helped because we did a trip to the Czech Republic to see Glen, Veronika and the kids. Also at either end of the year we travel to Melbourne on back for Christmas.

Google then splits up the travel into walking, driving, public transport, cycling and flying. I assume it does this on the basis of how fast I am moving and other information, such as typical public transport routes.

It also tells me how many countries/ regions Cities and places I have visited, with graphs showing me this by month. A further break up into shopping and food and drink. I again assume this is done because it knows where shops and food and drink places are located.

Overall fantastic information for marketers to know. I assume that this information is onsold by Google to anybody that wants to pay for it.

Or Google users it help sell, targeted advertising

This prompted me to think of which person holds the record for the most distance traveled ever. My curious way of thinking.

So I googled, most travelled person.I got a results of people who had traveled to the most number of countries.

So I changed it to the most distance travelled person, and was told it was Gherman Titov, a Soviet cosmonaut who orbited the Earth multiple times aboard the Vostok 2 spacecraft in 1961. During this mission, he traveled over 700,000 kilometers (430,000 miles) in a single day.

But in trying to to find the person that had traveled the most distance in their lifetime, I came across this:

You'll travel nearly a trillion miles in your lifetime, even if you never leave home. Here's how.

Even if you don't physically move, we are all sitting on a planet that rotates, what gives us day and night, orbits around the sun, which partially gives us our seasons, and orbits the centre of our galaxy. Then there's the fact that the universe is expanding, meaning that the galaxies are moving further apart, I assume.

Means, that without physically moving we travel over a trillion kilometres in a lifetime.

If you take that trillion kilometers and divided by the average life expectancy of a person of about 85 years, then divide that by the 365 days in a year and then divide that by 24 hours in a day, it means that the average person is traveling at an average speed of 1,343 km per hour in ther lifetime without moving at all.

So the next time anyone told you that speed kills, you can point out to them that even though everyone on average is traveling at 1343 kilometers per hour that does not cause then to die.

If dismissing the above, according to this discussion forum:

Longest cumulative distance travel by a single person in their lifetime

The record goes to Sergei Konstantinowitsch Krikaljow who spent a total of 803 days in space, constantly circling the earth. There is no number given in the Wikipedia article, but the previous record holder, Sergei Avdeyev ( Sergey Avdeev - Wikipedia 1 ) spent 748 days in space, covering no less than 515,000,000 kilometers. Mr. Krikaljow has significantly more miles under his belt.

The discussion goes on to hypothesize as to the type of people that would cover lots of distance not in space. But no names are given.

This record goes to the Voyager I spacecraft. According to this Wikipedia page in has travelled 24 billion km since beings launched in September 5, 1977, which is significantly less than the lifetime distance travelled by the average person as discussed above. However Voyager I is not yet 85 years old and could last longer than 85 years. But no one will ever know because in a few years time it will be unable to be communicated with.

Pail Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from an unprecedented distance of approximately 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU), as part of that day's Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System.

You have to zoom in on the band on the right side of the photo about half way up to see one pixel. That is our planet earth, seen from the edge of our solar system.