A 79-year-old woman who’s visited every country in the world says she had to juggle 2 to 3 jobs to finance her trips [Video]

Luisa Yu is an accomplished woman. At 79, she’s skydived in Dubai, climbed the cliffs of Angola, and stargazed on top of a volcano in Vanuatu.

And in November, Yu visited Serbia, completing her five-decade-long mission of visiting every country in the world. But Yu told Business Insider in a phone call that it was anything but easy, as she had to work two to three jobs to finance her trips.

“It was kind of difficult; it was a lot of work. I juggled driving from one hospital to another. But I was young at that time, in my 30s, so I could do it,” Yu said, referring to her career in the medical field.

Starting out with $300 in her pocket

Yu was born in the Philippines in 1945 and moved to St. Louis for an exchange program when she was 23 years old. After graduating, Yu said she found a job as a medical technologist and began traveling around the US …