A traveler, who spent nearly 30 years walking the globe, is opening up about his travels. For 27 years, traveler Karl Bushby has walked across the world.
He first started his journey at just 29. He's now 56 years old.
"There are moral questions involved in what I'm doing," he said, "and my son has paid the highest price. He grew up without a father at home. I don't know the guy. I don't know my own son."?"
The traveler revealed that his favorite three countries that he has been to were Colombia, Chile, and Mexico. Bushby didn't elaborate on exactly why these three came at the top of the list. "South America was like a boy's adventure story," Bushby said. "It was the happy experience I should have had in my teens—it was the best time of my life."
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Throughout his travels, Bushby has done some incredible and also dangerous things.
For one, he crossed the Darien Gap between Panama and Colombia, a rainforest that's practically a warzone.
He told CBS, "There was a whole layer above that that was cartels and drug plantations, and then really, really tough jungle."
The traveler also crossed the Bering Strait as well. During that journey, he encountered a polar bear. He explained, "You're in a very serious world that will kill you in 20 minutes if you mess up."
He's been documenting it all on social media these days. But that's something he didn't have in the beginning.
The traveler also weighed in on the challenges of his experience.
He said, "We've run into a lot of complications with visa problems, financial crises, the pandemic: we've had it all. It's been extremely difficult but we've always stuck to our guns and never been willing to compromise on the route."
