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- 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.by tarentel
- 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?
by hbn - 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...
by hackthemack - Was he able to keep the same trolley for the entire journey?by bigwheels
- 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-...
by fhdkweig - 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.by cubefox
- Gift article (requires login, but no subscription):
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/world/europe/karl-bushby-...
by jph00 - 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.