Intrepid explorer Karl Bushby finally ends his journey around the world after 10,227 days - exactly 28 years

Intrepid explorer Karl Bushby finally ends his journey around the world after 10,227 days - exactly 28 years Karl, 57, was due to cross the Humber Bridge with his dad Keith, 79, and brother Adrian, 54, after completing the final leg of his epic journey around the world Intrepid adventurer Karl Bushby was setting foot back home in Hull today - exactly 28 years after setting off on his walk around the world. Karl, 57, was due to cross the Humber Bridge with his dad Keith, 79, and brother Adrian, 54, after completing the final leg of his epic journey. There, he was reunited with his mum Angela, 79, and his son Adam, 36. And he was set to meet his 12-year-old granddaughter for the first time. He said: "Arriving in Hull, my home and the place I was born and had my childhood, is the victory.” Proud Angela promised that she will ask him: "What time do you call this?' - after she has given him a hug. At the end of his around the world adventure, Karl completed the longest unbroken path in human history. He added: "I have been looking on Google Earth and seeing the street where I grew up. The homes and garden walks look the same but some of the bushes look a lot taller.” The only item to survive the entire journey was his Paratrooper 'Flying Pegasus' badge. And he has hinted at the what the future holds, as he announced details of a theatre tour. His dad expects him to join the lucrative after dinner speaking circuit in America. A spokesman for his Goliath Expedition confirmed he was going to stay overnight in Hull. The former soldier set off from Peru on November 1, 1998, 10,227 days ago, including seven 'leap days'. He had expected the journey to take 12 years. He has crossed four continents, lost two long term relationships and spent long periods in Mexico due to global politics and Covid. He covered more than 30,000 miles (48,000 km), including 29 countries. He admits the end of journey will leave a gaping void in his life, but will receive a civic reception in Hull tomorrow, where plans include an exhibition dedicated to his extraordinary adventure. Karl was 29 when he hugged his mum and nan, and then set off on his 30,000-mile mission. Angela admits that she secretly hoped that he would give up somewhere along the way. But he has done it, and broken records along the way. It all started when his dad told him about two soldiers arguing over the impossible feat of walking from London to New York via the Bering Strait on a birthday card way back in the mid 1990s. The epic adventure took Karl across Europe, and Asia, and he became the first man to cross the Bering Strait on foot, and by taking to the freezing waters when he had to. He kept his vow not to use transport to advance and not to return home until the journey was complete. A Channel swim on Oct 5 was the final, major hurdle of his journey back to his childhood home in Hull. He left there for Chile on Oct 5, 1998. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Werner Herzog, who is making a documentary about the amazing journey, met him on UK soil. Both Karl's mum and dad turn 80 this month. Karl admitted: "Everything that I am and everything that I know of myself is going to go away. And that's going to be a problem. "You're going to have the old identity crisis, because Karl is this [an adventurer] and has been for half his life. I will have to figure out who I am again. What is the meaning to it all? "How do I find that meaning and purpose? How do I fill that hole I'm suddenly going to find myself in? Every fibre of my being, every day, has been what I'm doing right now. "It has been the mission. I think the old adage goes... the only thing worse than a man who can't fulfil his dreams is a man who's fulfilled his dreams... because then what?" Angela Maxwell, an American long-distance walker, joined him for the walk from Dover, where he landed after swimming the Channel. "I think Karl might be surprised how much he'll miss the road," she said. "We joke sometimes that Karl doesn't love walking. But he loves the mission. He loves the passion, the purpose." 'Bushby - The Man Who Walked the World' will come to Hull City Hall on Friday, November 13, with dates in Shrewsbury, Nottingham, York, Bury St Edmunds and Buxton. More dates will later be announced for 2027.