text:  And he traveled a lot to do that. This is a travel show, and Ben Franklin arguably was the most well-traveled American of his day. You calculated what? He crossed the Atlantic eight times and logged 42,000 miles? Frequent sailors. That's a lot of miles. That would be a lot of miles today. That was a lot of miles back then. He traveled up and down the eastern seaboard as postmaster general in the colonies.