After 28 years walking across the globe, he's almost home

fhdkweig

To sum it up in one word: visas. Turns out walking thousands of miles is the easy part. for another source, https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/exhibition-charts-karl-... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Bushby

reconnecting

Arthur Blessitt 38 years, 5 months, 20 days https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Blessitt

dingdongditchme

Reminds me of a couple German who walked/hitchhiked across the globe and made a movie of while doing so: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weit._Die_Geschichte_von_einem... They get a baby in the middle of it but keep going (maybe changing the rules a little ^.^). Still inspiring and heart-warming.

tarentel

This guy had a baby not too long before this and just left it behind. We should really stop talking this guy, he's not a great person as far as I'm concerned.

jph00

Gift article (requires login, but no subscription): https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/world/europe/karl-bushby-...

hbn

I wonder how his now 36-year-old son who was 8 when his father left to do this for no reason feels about it. Does doing a lot of walking make it acceptable to leave your young kid and go globetrotting for 30 years?

fallinditch

See also [1] - Simon Hattenstone's interview with Karl Bushby [1] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/oct/13/karl-bu...

bigwheels

Was he able to keep the same trolley for the entire journey?

hackthemack

Strange how there is randomness to if a story catches on or not. I posted about this 10 months ago and got no traction. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46176842 msnbc lost the link, but it was this article https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/british-globe...

vconnor

Love hearing from the morality police in face of such incredible feat of human effort and ingenuity. No one who embarks in such an adventure is a ‘well-adjusted’ person, and their personal demons are theirs to face. Yet it is so simple for many to just point and blame at someone else’s fault instead of just appreciating what single-minded effort is able to achieve. I well expect to be downvoted, as the modern internet culture revels in blame and negativity. Any achievement an opportunity to demolish it. The Puritan morality is stronger than ever. “Let the sinless one among you throw the first stone.” Congrats to this person, and hope they have learned something about themselves and their place in the world.

cubefox

This is a crazy story. 28 years. Crossing the Bering Strait by foot, swimming across the English Channel after they didn't let him walk through the Channel Tunnel, etc. I wonder what his main source of income is/was.

dragthor

For some reason I don't care about this story.

raffael_de

i would think that a man like him doesn't really have a natural concept of "home".