A Dozen Churn Dash Blocks

 

Karl Bushby was born in Hull, North Yorkshire in 1969. At 16 he joined the British Army and served with the 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment eleven years. November 11, 1998, he set out on a walking tour of the world. He began in Punta Arenas, Chile and hiked through South, Central and North America. In Montan, he was fined for walking on a highway and told he must stay on secondary roads. For over twenty-five years, he has covered more than thirty thousand miles through deserts, jungles, and across mountains. He swam the Caspian Sea and even crossed the frozen Bering Strait on foot. He suffered decades of delays caused by politics, weather, a global pandemic and visa troubles. At his most recent update, October 2025, he’d made it to Romania, leaving Hungary, Slovakia, Czechia, Germany, the Netherlands, and the English Channel between him and home. When he finally arrives, he will have spent 28 years on the road.