Real shame he didn’t see his son for all that time. He was 8yo when his father left and now he has a 12yo kid himself. That’s very sad.
Crazy to see how far people are willing to go to avoid raising a kid.
Too interesting.
Have you been to Hull?
Have you walked entirely around the world?
No one has, it’s a bit wet for that
I would if I came from Hull.
I saw this guy in my hometown a couple weeks ago. I thought he was a homeless guy at first, boy was I wrong
I don’t completely understand his rules, I think. He spent years in Mexico between stints? How’d he get back there? Where’d he leave his stuff?
Oh well.
Anyone walking around the world has weird rules for what is considered continuous. My understanding is most of the time they’re flying from like asia then to Australia then walking across America which while I guess is around the world it’s like half flying.
From what I think I vaguely remember hearing about this guy on a podcast a while back, there were areas he had to wait for permission or for conflicts to end before he could walk through them and he didnt want to go home until completing the journey so he would stay with friends in Mexico, but then fly back and begin the journey where he left off.
Here’s his route:
Edit: from reading the Wikipedia entry and refreshing my memory, the delays were due to visa issues like Russia only allowing 90 days in the country at a time so he’d have to leave and come back every 90-day stretch but also ran into issues with funding which delayed things further.
Miles? Does the BBC not know they use metric in the UK?
For speed and distances the UK uses miles per hour and miles
I thought they were smart enough to fully switch to metric. But they also left the EU, so somehow I’m not surprised they still use some imperial.
Weights and measures are now kg and ml, except at the pub where it’s still in imperial pints.
