Oct 13, 2026
“The world is a lot better than it looks when you’re watching the 24-hour news cycle, that’s for sure.” — Karl Bushby | Quote of the Day
Karl Bushby, the English adventurer who set off from the southern tip of Chile in 1998 and is walking the final miles home to Hull 28 years later — the first person to travel an unbroken path around the world without motorised transport — on why three decades on the road left him trusting people more, not less: as individuals, he says, we are the best of the best, and the 24-hour news cycle is a poor mirror of the strangers who actually kept him going.
