Karl Bushby - 28-year trek from South America to Hull
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9146yve236lo
What a legend. I love the spirit of people like this.
What a legend. I love the spirit of people like this.
Agent57 said:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9146yve236lo
What a legend. I love the spirit of people like this.
I use to work with his Mum.What a legend. I love the spirit of people like this.
I remember asking her at the time he set off why he was doing it, she didn’t know.
Always thougt he would be home after a few weeks. Got that wrong didn’t I
Dan_1981 said:
On the face of it I thought it sounded amazing
But of the 28 years he's only been walking for about 13 and kept going back to Mexico, cos it was cheap?
After abandoning his 9 year old son to go and do it...
I'm no longer as amazed by him.
Thought the same , left his family to go for a walk for years ,sounds like a self centred wBut of the 28 years he's only been walking for about 13 and kept going back to Mexico, cos it was cheap?
After abandoning his 9 year old son to go and do it...
I'm no longer as amazed by him.
ker ….Kuwahara said:
Dan_1981 said:
On the face of it I thought it sounded amazing
But of the 28 years he's only been walking for about 13 and kept going back to Mexico, cos it was cheap?
After abandoning his 9 year old son to go and do it...
I'm no longer as amazed by him.
Thought the same , left his family to go for a walk for years ,sounds like a self centred wBut of the 28 years he's only been walking for about 13 and kept going back to Mexico, cos it was cheap?
After abandoning his 9 year old son to go and do it...
I'm no longer as amazed by him.
ker .But yes not the dad to be there, maybe some deep rooted mental health issues?
Dan_1981 said:
On the face of it I thought it sounded amazing
But of the 28 years he's only been walking for about 13 and kept going back to Mexico, cos it was cheap?
After abandoning his 9 year old son to go and do it...
I'm no longer as amazed by him.
Pretty standard fBut of the 28 years he's only been walking for about 13 and kept going back to Mexico, cos it was cheap?
After abandoning his 9 year old son to go and do it...
I'm no longer as amazed by him.
ked in the head veteran behaviour, I say that as one. I can't imagine he's going to adjust well to settling back down in Hull, if that's even the plan.
Still an incredible journey.
Seems an amazing journey, although not quite as it sounds he seems to have many years flying backwards and forwards to Mexico. I think at one point he spent 5 years there.
Seems he does still get on with his son but has a 12 year old granddaughter he's never seen.
He said in an interview he wouldn't come home if his parents died and he didn't come home when his son nearly died in a motorbike accident. Admitted he's entirely selfish doing something like this.
It's an achievement but sounds a strange and troubled man.
Seems he does still get on with his son but has a 12 year old granddaughter he's never seen.
He said in an interview he wouldn't come home if his parents died and he didn't come home when his son nearly died in a motorbike accident. Admitted he's entirely selfish doing something like this.
It's an achievement but sounds a strange and troubled man.
Something fishy about this whole tale, American sponsors. Lots of flight back and forth to South America and Mexico from the USA.
A career of some kind as an ex Para broken by a walking and swimming odyssey to get back to Hull of all places.
Although I thought the Chunnel staff were mean as fk not letting him walk back through the service tunnels and instead having to swim the channel.
A career of some kind as an ex Para broken by a walking and swimming odyssey to get back to Hull of all places.
Although I thought the Chunnel staff were mean as f
k not letting him walk back through the service tunnels and instead having to swim the channel. Bonefish Blues said:
I thought it was slightly odd. I suppose it should have made more impression on me than that, but he seemed about as dispassionate as me in the parts of interviews I caught. Which was odd.
If you're the kind of person that seeks out walking around in Alaska and swimming the Caspian Sea then I can't imagine a media scrum is your natural habitat. I imagine the media want him to be something he's not.
Most people would have a YouTube channel these days.
I think his wife and child left him and moved to Northern Ireland.
He was probably depressed and thought - Why am I staying in Hull on my own?
If his feet is not impressive, how about Nick Butter: The man who ran a marathon in every country in the world
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/55305942
I get some of the self-centred comments but the world does need people that look at situations and think: "I wonder if that is possible?"
Aspiring do do things that have never been done before or better or different rather than endless box-ticking following the crowd. "We do this beacuase it's always been done that way and that is what the process says."
"You can't come through our tunnel". "Stuff it! I'll swim the channel, then!"
He was probably depressed and thought - Why am I staying in Hull on my own?
If his feet is not impressive, how about Nick Butter: The man who ran a marathon in every country in the world
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/55305942
I get some of the self-centred comments but the world does need people that look at situations and think: "I wonder if that is possible?"
Aspiring do do things that have never been done before or better or different rather than endless box-ticking following the crowd. "We do this beacuase it's always been done that way and that is what the process says."
"You can't come through our tunnel". "Stuff it! I'll swim the channel, then!"
_Rodders_ said:
Bonefish Blues said:
I thought it was slightly odd. I suppose it should have made more impression on me than that, but he seemed about as dispassionate as me in the parts of interviews I caught. Which was odd.
If you're the kind of person that seeks out walking around in Alaska and swimming the Caspian Sea then I can't imagine a media scrum is your natural habitat. I imagine the media want him to be something he's not.
Most people would have a YouTube channel these days.
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