He’s Been Walking Home for 28 Years… | Karl Bushby

He wanted to walk home. The journey became almost three decades of his life. 🌍🚶 In 1998, Karl Bushby set off from Punta Arenas, Chile, with a seemingly impossible goal: reach his home in England along a continuous route without using transport to make forward progress. Follow the Goliath Expedition through an animated world map — from South America’s jungles to North America, the frozen Bering Strait, Asia, the Caspian Sea and Europe. Walking, swimming, border problems and years of delays: what does it take to keep going when home is still thousands of miles away? On 5 October 2026, Bushby reached Dover after swimming the English Channel. At that landing, roughly 400 km remained to his home in Hull. The video follows his return to England and the remaining route toward home. 👇 Would YOU attempt a journey like this? Tell us in the comments and subscribe to Maprush for more remarkable stories told through animated maps. 🗺️ ABOUT THE MAP The route between known locations is simplified. Walking and swimming sections, pauses and the planned final stretch are distinguished in the animation. 📚 SOURCES Goliath Expedition — Karl Bushby karlbushby[dot]world ITV News — return to England, October 2026 itv[dot]com/news/calendar/2026-10-06/man-who-set-out-to-walk-globe-arrived-back-in-uk-28-years-later 🎵 MUSIC Tropic Fuse — French Fuse YouTube Audio Library studio[dot]youtube[dot]com 🔊 SOUND EFFECTS Kenney — CC0 kenney[dot]nl Mixkit mixkit[dot]co To visit these websites, replace [dot] with a dot and paste the address into your browser. #KarlBushby #GoliathExpedition #Maprush