Badass Solo Traveller Sylvia Longmire Isn’t Letting MS Slow Down Her Travels
Having been to over 60 countries, disability advocate Sylvia Longmire shows other women that travelling with MS is possible and enjoyable.
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She’s working on her bucket list
2016: 19 trips, 28 cities, 5 countries.
2017: 21 trips, 38 cities, 18 countries.
2018: 15 trips, 40 cities, 24 countries
In the years following her MS diagnosis, Longmire’s globetrotting took on an awe-inspiring and almost dizzying pace, with 2019 being her most prolific year as a traveller: 24 trips, 24 countries, 64 cities.
Some of the highlights of those years of exploration include making it to Dubai (a 16-hour flight from her home in Florida), where Longmire visited the iconic and towering Burj Khalifa, went shopping in a souk and off-roading in the desert, where she was carried to the top of a sand dune. It was a trip that Longmire says gave her a great deal of confidence as a disabled traveller.
Alaska was another particularly memorable destination on Longmire’s list. She visited via cruise (on two separate occasions). Even though Longmire required a scooter to get around due to her progressing MS, she was able to participate in a helicopter ride to take in Alaska’s beauty from above during both trips. Equally memorable, the helicopter touched down on a glacier.
The final journey on Longmire’s “official” bucket list took her to Cape Town, South Africa. “I got to live the dream of a 20-minute helicopter flight along the south coast with an aerial view of Table Mountain,” Longmire recalls.
But she’s not done yet
To clarify, however, just because Longmire completed her bucket list doesn’t mean she’s done travelling. Not by a long shot.
Last year, for instance, she took 19 trips to 5 countries and 32 cities. And to date in 2025, she’s recorded 13 trips to 6 countries and 18 cities.
The Florida resident will mark her upcoming 51st birthday this year with a visit to London and Paris. A major Formula One fan, Longmire also plans to visit Las Vegas this coming November to take in a race.
Which brings us back to Longmire’s admission that each time she leaves the house to begin a new trip, she’s wracked with fear. If it’s not already abundantly clear, that fear is still not an obstacle.
